Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate he has made of the proportion of Yemeni Government workers by each Governorate in receipt of salary payments; and what the regularity of those payments is.

The UK does not collect comprehensive information on the number of Government of Yemen workers receiving salary payments.

However, we welcome reports of the Government of Yemen making recent progress towards paying public-sector salaries across more of the country, including in Hodeidah governorate and other Houthi-controlled areas.

The UK continues to encourage the Government of Yemen to resume the full and regular payment of public-sector salaries in all areas of the country.