Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what her policy is on the humanitarian surge in Yemen proposed by the US Permanent Representative to the UN, Samantha Power, at the UN Security Council session on 31 October 2016.

Given the scale of humanitarian needs in Yemen, the UK Government agrees that a humanitarian surge is urgently required. In September 2016, the Secretary of State for International Development chaired a high level international event on Yemen. At the event, donors pledged over $100 million in new funding, and UN agencies made specific commitments to scale up their response, including by deploying more senior and experienced leaders and staff across the country.