Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Harrington of Watford on 22 March (HL Deb col 818), what assessment they have made of the capacity in countries neighbouring Ukraine to host the 100,000 orphans in that country; how many of those orphans have been evacuated so far; and what assistance they have provided to date to support those children.

We do not have information about the number of orphans that have been evacuated from Ukraine so far and we have not made an assessment of the capacity of neighbouring countries to host them.

The UK has now committed £394 million in aid to the current crisis. This includes £220 million of humanitarian assistance which will be used to save lives and protect vulnerable people inside Ukraine and in neighbouring countries. It will also be used to support refugees, including children, fleeing Ukraine, through the provision of logistics, advice and analysis of needs on the ground.