Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help support international action to tackle conflict-related sexual violence.

This Government's commitment to prevent and respond to conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) is resolute. To drive international action, Lord Collins has been appointed as the Prime Minister's Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict (PSVI). He visited Colombia on 25 - 26 November for a meeting of the International Alliance on PSVI, as vice chair, where he outlined the UK's commitment to prevent CRSV, end impunity, and put survivors at the centre of everything we do. Through PSVI, the UK has supported thousands of survivors of CRSV and contributed to vital legislative changes in Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosovo and Colombia.