Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress his Department has made on delivering commitments in the G7 famine prevention and humanitarian crises compact.

The Famine Prevention and Humanitarian Crises Compact was agreed during the UK's G7 Presidency and we have provided our share of the $7 billion in humanitarian assistance to the countries one step from famine in 2021. We have also allocated a further £3 billion for humanitarian responses over the next three years. We continue to deliver on our policy commitments in the Compact. For example, we co-convened events at COP27 and the Riyadh Humanitarian Forum 2023 to discuss effective approaches to scaling up anticipatory action in fragile and conflict affected states and continue to work with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and others through our core funding.