Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what direct support her Department is providing to the government of Yemen on making economic reform plans.

DFID is providing advice to the Government of Yemen on how to address binding constraints to growth and develop a prioritised economic reform plan, working with the World Bank. In addition we are also providing £3.15 million, through a World Bank Trust Fund, to help the Government of Yemen to implement economic policy reforms prioritised in Yemen’s 2012 Mutual Accountability Framework, and to coordinate international assistance to support these reforms. Finally, we are working closely with the IMF on its recently agreed Extended Credit Facility programme for Yemen, which includes a number of economic reform benchmarks.