Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will match the grant recently made by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church for relief and reconstruction in the war-damaged province of Tigray.

Since the war in Tigray broke out in 2019, the UK has allocated more than £400 million in humanitarian support to Ethiopia. In May 2023 the UK co-chaired a pledging event for the Horn of Africa that raised around £1.9 billion for nearly 32 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. £42 million of this is additional support the UK has pledged for Ethiopia, which will be allocated according to need through trusted partners.