Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what humanitarian support her Department is providing to victims of Storm Julia in Central America.

The UK provides £1.5m annually to the The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) which has deployed assistance in response to Storm Julia to cover immediate needs such as evacuating people and assets, protecting homes, and buying emergency supplies. We continue to work with the Met Office, Embassies and regional Governments to monitor events in the region and we will consider requests from governments for support on a case-by-case basis.