Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to ensure Rohingya refugee children are being educated in newly established refugee camps.

The UK is the largest contributor to the Education Cannot Wait initiative, investing £30m between 2016 and 2018. Education Cannot Wait has committed US$3 million (£2.2 million) for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Education Cannot Wait’s response will help cover more than 70 percent of the emergency educational needs of Rohingya refugee children until the end of 2017.

DFID is developing an ambitious new education policy to get some of the most marginalised children learning now. We are also reviewing options for further funding as part of its longer term response to the Rohingya refugee crisis. We are helping education experts and organisations to work with the Ministries of Education in Bangladesh and Burma, to agree on a curriculum and certification process for Rohingya children in Cox’s Bazar.