Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what support the Government provides to children forcibly displaced from Sudan to third countries.

On 4 May, the Government announced £5 million of life-saving aid to help meet the urgent needs of refugees and returnees in South Sudan and Chad who have fled the violence in Sudan. The UK aims to protect and prioritise the most vulnerable people when crises occur. In South Sudan, £1.5 million was allocated to World Food Programme (WFP) for food in border areas, and £500,000 to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for Gender Based Violence protection services. In Chad, £1.5 million was allocated to WFP to preposition food before seasonal floods, and £1 million to the Sahel Regional Fund to support urgent assistance and protection by NGOs. The UN Central Emergency Response Fund and the Red Cross Disaster Response Emergency Fund, and START Fund, all of which the UK contributes to, have activated for Sudan and the region to provide assistance to those in desperate need.