Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to deploy the UK team of experts on preventing sexual violence in conflict to Bangladesh to document evidence of alleged rape and sexual violence against the Rohingya people.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department for International Development (DFID) officials are urgently assessing the UN-led Sexual and Gender-Based Violence response in Bangladesh, including the level of identification and outreach and clinical management and what additional support the UK may usefully provide.

DFID has funded the deployment of an international expert to UNFPA in Cox's Bazar to lead the Gender-Based Violence Sub-Sector, part of the UNHCR-led Protection Sector of the international humanitarian response. We are currently ​in dialogue with the Coordinator to better understand the level of incidence, response and coordination and associated challenges. We will then assess whether deploying additional UK expertise is required to reinforce UN-led efforts, including documentation, already underway in country.