Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support the passage of refugees fleeing Ukraine.

The UK has now pledged £220 million of humanitarian assistance to support a well-coordinated and well-funded response to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and the region. UK assistance has enabled a 14-person UK field team of humanitarian experts to deploy to Poland, Moldova and Romania to provide logistics advice and analyse the evolving refugee situation. The FCDO has also deployed a UK Medical Health Assessment Team to Romania and Moldova to assess options for rapidly deploying UK Emergency Medical Team capabilities in response to the crisis in Ukraine. We have provided over 760,000 UK medical items to Ukraine and 9,000 to Moldova. The UK committed £25 million to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Ukraine Appeal, which (including the UK's contribution) has now raised over £174 million.