Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment her Department has made of the humanitarian situation in areas of Syria outside Aleppo.

The UN estimates that there are 13.5 million people in need of humanitarian assistance inside Syria, including 4.9 million living in hard to reach or besieged areas. The UN assesses that 7 million people do not have consistent access to adequate food, 15 million need water and sanitation, and 4.3 million are in need of shelter.