Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department (a) has taken and (b) plans to take to support partner Governments in Africa to implement the conditions of the Kampala Convention; and what steps she is taking to encourage those countries who have not yet signed up to that convention to do so.

The UK supports the Kampala Convention, which provides a foundation to better protect and consider the needs of internally displaced persons. We are supporting the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to work with African States to adopt the Kampala Convention through our core funding of £63m per year. The UK is the second largest donor to the ICRC.