Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what reports she has recently received of child malnutrition and starvation in Yemen.

According to the recently published UN Humanitarian Needs Overview for Yemen, almost half a million children under 5 suffer from severe acute malnutrition, and 2.8 million children and pregnant or lactating women are affected by moderate acute malnutrition.

In 2016/17, the UK is providing £19 million to UNICEF to treat children with severe acute malnutrition and support mobile health clinics. Last year, we helped treat over 150,000 children under 5 for severe acute malnutrition.