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 help ensure humanitarian aid can reach Ukraine.

The UK has now committed £395 million in aid to the current crisis. This includes £220 million of humanitarian assistance which will be used to save lives, protect vulnerable people inside Ukraine and in neighbouring countries. We have also contributed £3.5 million to provide medical supplies to Ukraine. We have called on Russia to enable humanitarian access and safe passage for civilians to flee the violence. We are calling on the international community, allies, donors and multilateral humanitarian organisations, to speak as one and demand full humanitarian access at all times.