Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the numbers of displaced people escaping conflict in Tigray (a) internally, and (b) externally into Sudan, and (2) the implications of that conflict for food security in that region.

We await the results of the joint UN - Government of Ethiopia needs assessment missions. The UN estimates that up to 1.3 million people affected by the conflict in Tigray need humanitarian assistance, on top of an existing humanitarian caseload of one million people in the region. As of 4 January, 55,500 people have sought refuge in Sudan.

We are concerned about the impact of the conflict and displacement on food security and nutrition in Tigray and understand that up to 1.26 million people could be in need of humanitarian food assistance.