Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact on a) food security, b) access to healthcare and c) other humanitarian impacts of the resumption of violence between the TPLF and the government of Ethiopia since 24 August 2022.

The conflict in Ethiopia has contributed to one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, leaving 13 million people in Tigray, Amhara and Afar requiring humanitarian assistance. The breakdown of the truce between the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian Government, and the renewed involvement of Eritrea, is catastrophic for the people of Ethiopia and makes the work of humanitarian agencies much more difficult. Humanitarian access to Tigray is now extremely limited. This is having a devastating impact on food security, access to healthcare and other humanitarian needs.

The UK urges all parties to the conflict to guarantee unfettered humanitarian access by immediately ceasing hostilities and allowing aid in. The UK calls on the Ethiopian Government to urgently restore services to Tigray and the TPLF to return the fuel that it seized so that it can be used for aid distribution and critical services.