Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to help support people displaced within the Central Sahel region as a result of increased insecurity in that region.

The UK is working with partners, through our Sahel Humanitarian Emergency Response Programme, to address the needs of those displaced in the Sahel. UK support includes responding to urgent food insecurity, responding to severe acute malnutrition, providing basic life-saving assistance to conflict affected people, as well as supporting safe access for humanitarian workers. Since 2019, we have supported 10.5 million people with life-saving assistance across the G5 Sahel countries (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, and Mauritania).