Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what additional support her Department plans to provide to South Sudan in response to the declaration of famine in that country.

Millions of people in South Sudan have been suffering from food shortages for many years. For this reason, we developed a large humanitarian programme and the UK, with other donors, has been able to prevent famine in each of the last three years. When famine was declared this year we were able to respond quickly and confirmed the day after the UN appeal was announced that we will make £100 million available in 2017 to provide food for 500,000 people. We will continue to monitor the situation and encourage other donors to follow the UK’s lead.