Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of Yemeni civilians that have been (a) killed, (b) injured and (c) displaced as a result of military action by Saudi Arabia in 2016.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) does not record reported number of civilian casualties, injured or displaced.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) monitors incidents of alleged international humanitarian law (IHL) violations by the Saudi-led Coalition in Yemen using available information. This is used to form an overall view on the approach and attitude of Saudi Arabia to IHL. It is important to make clear that neither the MOD nor the FCO reaches a conclusion as to whether or not an IHL violation has taken place in relation to each and every incident of potential concern that comes to its attention. This would simply not be possible in conflicts to which the UK is not a party, as is the case in Yemen.