Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent representations she has made to the Bangladesh Government to give UK humanitarian agencies access to Bangladesh to support displaced Rohingya people.

On the Secretary of state’s recent visit to Bangladesh in November 2017, she discussed the issue of NGO access to provide support to displaced Rohingya in Bangladesh with the UN and partners in Dhaka. The issue was raised with the government of Bangladesh by FCO Ministers on their joint visit last September, and is raised regularly with the government by officials from the British High Commission in Bangladesh.