Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the floods in Sudan, what aid they have provided to support those affected.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is supporting the Government of Sudan-led flood response through the UN and NGOs.

This includes the UN Sudan Humanitarian Fund (SHF) where the UK has provided £27 million in 2020 for a range of urgent needs including COVID-19, locusts and now flooding. £ 3.0 ($3.9) million, via the SHF, has been provided to aid agencies for clean water, sanitation and hygiene activities, emergency shelter as well as basic relief items including blankets and sleeping mats. The START Fund, to which the UK is the largest donor, allocated funding to provide clean water and sanitation.

UK aid has also provided over £750,000 to the UN's Refugee Agency, UNHCR, the Danish Refugee Council and other aid agencies to provide affected people with emergency shelter kits to repair damaged homes, cash, food, clean water and sandbags.