Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what humanitarian aid her Department is providing in the Eastern Ghouta region of Syria.

Humanitarian access to Eastern Ghouta is severely constrained by the Assad regime. Where and when access allows, DFID’s humanitarian partners are providing health and nutrition, livelihoods and food security, winter clothing, clean water, and protection.

The UK continues to press for full and sustained humanitarian access. We co-sponsored the UN Security Council resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire to enable humanitarian aid and medical evacuations, and call on all parties to the conflict to act now to ensure the ceasefire is implemented in full.