Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the oral evidence of the Prime Minister at the Liaison Committee on 24 March 2021, whether the budget for the IRC programme to help vulnerable marginalised women and girls in Lebanon will be reduced in the 2021-22 financial year.

The UK is a long-standing friend of Lebanon and the Lebanese people.

Since the start of the Syria Crisis we have allocated over £787 million in humanitarian and development funding to Lebanon. The FCDO's two programmes with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Lebanon will end as planned in March 2021.