Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to provide an additional £70 million for the treatment of wasting for acutely malnourished children in East Africa.

Humanitarian needs across East Africa are at critical levels with a growing caseload of malnourished children. The UK is at the forefront of the humanitarian response in the region having invested over £1 billion in humanitarian aid alone since 2019. UK funded programmes are saving lives and making a difference. Last year in Somalia approximately 50,000 people received urgent nutrition and health services. A further 200,000 malnourished women and children benefited from UK assistance in Ethiopia. We will share details of our planned humanitarian budgets for East Africa for financial year 2023/2024 in due course.