Found: Defence Staff, I had 3 to ration weapons consumption for the limited operations against Daesh in Syria

Found: Will Todman: Economic issues are really severe, particularly in Lebanon and Syria.

Found: Will Todman: Economic issues are really severe, particularly in Lebanon and Syria.

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on the livelihoods of Palestinian refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon of the decision to suspend aid to the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The UK provided £35 million to UNRWA this financial year, including an uplift of £16 million for the Gaza humanitarian response, all of which was disbursed before the recent allegations came to light. No more British funding is due this financial year and we have paused any future funding of UNRWA..

Indeed, we are appalled by allegations that UNRWA staff were involved in the 7 October attack against Israel, a heinous act of terrorism that the UK Government has repeatedly condemned.

We want UNRWA to give detailed undertakings about changes in personnel, policy and precedents to ensure this can never happen again. We are working with allies to try to bring this situation to a rapid conclusion. I have discussed this with Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini on several occasions, most recently on 4 April.

We are aware that the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services and Catherine Colonna have now provided their interim reports to the UN Secretary-General.

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what proportion of UK aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is spent on (a) food, (b) medicines, (c) other essentials, (d) salaries and (e) other costs for (i) UNRWA personnel and (ii) other employees.

Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)

UK funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was disbursed before the allegations that UNRWA employees were involved in the appalling 7 October terror attack against Israel came to light. No more British funding is due this financial year and we are pausing any future funding of UNRWA.

We provided £19 million of unearmarked funding this financial year to UNRWA's programme budget. This enabled UNRWA to deliver education, health, relief and social services and protection to 5.9 million Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. The UK also provided £16 million to UNRWA's Flash Appeal in response to the Gaza Crisis, supporting UNRWA to deliver humanitarian assistance, food, shelter, and non-food items for refugees in Gaza.

Our decision to pause future funding to UNRWA has no impact on the UK's contribution to the humanitarian response.

Our commitment to trebling aid to Gaza still stands and we are supporting partners including the British Red Cross, UNICEF, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and Egyptian Red Crescent Society to respond to critical food, fuel, water, health, shelter and security needs in Gaza.

Found: These will bolster Operation Shader, which is the UK’s existing counter-Daesh operation in Iraq and Syria

Found: UN Human Rights Council 55: UK Statement on Syria resolution

Found: groups which Iran has continued to support are Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, militias in Syria

Found: Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa* South Sudan Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname 634 Syria

Found: Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa* South Sudan Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname 634 Syria

Found: CDCC reached over 40 million people in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and West Africa, and tens of millions

Found: supplierengagement@fcdo.gov.uk project_10649 PD - MENA, AFPAK, EECAD & HUMANITARIAN Aid Fund Northern Syria

Found: Navigating fragmentation: improving free movement in Northwest Syria

Found: Navigating fragmentation: improving free movement in Daraa, South Syria

Found: died from wounds sustained in Afghanistan in 2012, in 2018 one service person was killed in action in Syria

Found: Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa* South Sudan Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname 634 Syria

Found: CDCC reached over 40 million people in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and West Africa, and tens of millions

Found: learning from the Covid-19 pandemic and the large- scale relocation and resettlement of people from Syria