Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to identify potential additional routes for humanitarian aid delivery into Sudan since July 2024.

The UK has continued to push for additional aid routes into Sudan, including through Aweil (from South Sudan to Sudan), to facilitate aid deliveries, particularly into areas held by the Rapid Support Forces; and for existing routes in to be free of bureaucratic and administrative impediments. In addition, the UK continues to press for improved cross-line routes, including into Khartoum. We raised the critical importance of increased humanitarian cross-border and cross-line access at open briefings at the UN Security Council on 19 December 2024 and 6 January 2025 and have engaged directly with the new Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, on the UN response. On 25 November 2024, the Foreign Secretary chaired a Sudan meeting with G7 and Arab Quint Foreign Ministers to discuss joint steps to improve humanitarian access, protect civilians, and increase aid.