Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether officials from (a) his Department and (b) other Government Departments have visited the Tindouf camps in Algeria to examine allegations of the embezzlement of aid in those camps in the last five years.

Officials have visited the Tindouf refugee camps as part of the UN-organised bi-annual Sponsor Programme visits, not specifically to examine any such allegations, during which they have observed the humanitarian effort by NGOs and UN Agencies. The most recent visit took place in November 2022.