Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how his Department plans to use the additional £10 million in aid funding for the Occupied Palestinian Territories to help tackle immediate humanitarian needs in Gaza.

The additional £10 million of funding for the Occupied Palestinian Territories announced by the Foreign Secretary on 13 March includes £5 million to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) Pooled Fund, core relief items, including 3,300 tents, and £3.5 million to UNICEF.

This brings total UK support to over £100 million this financial year, including 150 tonnes of UK aid, including more than 13,000 blankets and 840 family-sized tents, which entered Gaza on the 13 March, and a full field hospital, provided by UK Aid funding to UK-Med, which is arriving in Gaza from Manchester.