| answer text |
<p>The UK is strongly committed to supporting refugees and other displaced people
and remains at the forefront of refugee responses around the world. To date, we have
provided over £3.1 billion in response to the Syrian conflict, our largest ever response
to a single humanitarian crisis, and since August 2017 £256 million for the Rohingya
crisis. That has included immediate, life-saving aid such as food, shelter and clean
water, as well as longer-term support such as jobs, livelihoods and access to education
and health care.</p><p>We are one of largest donors to the UN’s Refugee agency and
have helped develop and champion the Global Compact on Refugees, which supports long-term
and holistic approaches to assistance and protection.</p><p>The UK is one of the biggest
humanitarian donors world-wide and between April 2015 and March 2019, we reached 32.4
million people with humanitarian assistance (food aid, cash and voucher transfers).
Between 2014 and 2018, DFID provided over £6 billion of bilateral humanitarian funding
to people in need, including refugees and displaced people.</p>
|
|
