Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the Government's objectives are for the Syria Donors Conference on 4 February 2016.

We want the Conference to raise significant new funding to help those affected by the crisis, both to support immediate and longer term humanitarian needs but also jobs and getting Syrian refugee children into school. The Conference also aims to reaffirm the international community’s commitment to protect civilians from harm and the need for unfettered, impartial humanitarian access inside Syria.