Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the proportion of children in Yemen who have had access to full education between the ages of 6 and 14 in (a) 2016, (b) 2017, (c) 2018 and (d) to date in 2019.

According to the 2019 UN Humanitarian Response Plan for Yemen, 36% of school-age girls and 24% of school-age boys do not attend school.

In 2018, according to the 2018 UN Humanitarian Response Plan for Yemen, 1.9 million school-age children did not attend school (25% of school-age children).

In 2017, according to the 2017 UN Humanitarian Response Plan for Yemen, two million school-age children did not attend school (approximately 27% of school-age children).

In 2016, according to the 2016 UN Humanitarian Response Plan for Yemen, 1.8 million school-age children did not attend school (approximately 24% of school-age children).