Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to support Türkiye following the earthquakes; how much financial aid he has (a) given and (b) plans to give to Türkiye ; and whether financial aid for that purpose has been reprioritised from other planned projects funded by the Overseas Development Assistance budget.

As I said in my video-message to the International Donors' Conference on 20 March, UK aid totalling £43.3 million has helped thousands of survivors in Turkey and Syria, of which £15 million has been for aid in Turkey. We provided: search and rescue capability; specially trained dogs, and over 11,000 patients have been treated by UK medical teams. To fund the humanitarian response, underspends across a number of different projects and geographies were re-directed at the end of the financial year. As we move out of the emergency response phase, the UK will continue to stand in solidarity with Turkey and to look at what more we can do to support the longer term recovery effort.