Asked by: Karen Lee (Labour - Lincoln)
Question to the Department for International Development:
What recent assessment she has made of the humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
We continually monitor the humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and in particular the major pressure on Gaza’s health sector. Last month DFID announced a new aid package of £2 million to the International Committee for the Red Cross to support delivery of vital medicines, equipment and rehabilitation services.
Asked by: Karen Lee (Labour - Lincoln)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the level of humanitarian need in Yemen.
Answered by Alistair Burt
Yemen remains the world’s largest humanitarian crisis with nearly 80 per cent of the entire population – 24 million people – requiring some form of humanitarian assistance and protection. The number of food insecure people has also risen from 17 million to over 20 million and for the first time, there are people (almost 240,000) in the most severe food security category, IPC 5 - at high risk of death.
The UK is providing £170 million in response to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen this financial year, including food for the equivalent of 4 million Yemenis for one month. Our funding over the next three years will screen 2.2 million children under the age of five for malnutrition and provide urgent treatment for 70,000 of the most vulnerable children. However, a political settlement is the only way to address the worsening humanitarian crisis and we encourage further constructive engagement from all parties to achieve this.