Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much UK aid was sent to Myanmar in the latest year for which figures are available; and whether any of that aid was earmarked to help the Rohingya Muslims living in the west, or Roman Catholics living in the east, of that country.

In financial year 2015-16, the UK spent £105.3m of overseas development assistance in Burma through its bilateral country programme. No financial aid was provided to the Government of Burma. DFID allocates aid on the basis of need and according to principles that ensure that no-one is discriminated against on the grounds of race, religion or ethnicity. DFID has long been one of the biggest bilateral humanitarian donors in Burma, notably Rakhine State and the east of the country. DFID is currently managing to get humanitarian support to over 100,000 people in Rakhine, including providing assistance in internally displaced people camps outside of northern Rakhine and some limited support in northern Rakhine. We have a large programme funding humanitarian assistance to displaced and conflict-affected people in government and non-government controlled areas of Kachin, northern Shan and south east Burma.