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Written Question
Middle East: Refugees
Wednesday 3rd June 2015

Asked by: Heidi Allen (Liberal Democrat - South Cambridgeshire)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the situation of refugees affected by conflict in Syria and Iraq.

Answered by Desmond Swayne

We are deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation in Syria, Iraq and the region. The UN estimates that 7.6 million people are internally displaced in Syria and a further 2.9 million people are internally displaced in Iraq. There are over 3.9 million Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries.