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date	01/06/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Yemen: Humanitarian Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what outcomes were agreed on 23 April 2020 during discussions between her Department's Acting Permanent Secretary and the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs on international humanitarian funding levels in Yemen.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff North
tabling member printed	Anna McMorrin
uin	52363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2020 answer text <p>On Thursday 23 April, DFID’s Acting Permanent Secretary discussed the worsening humanitarian situation in Yemen and the urgent need for additional funding with UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mark Lowcock.</p><p>The UN has requested over $2.4 billion of funding to be able to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen until the end of this year.</p><p>I announced on 2 June that the UK will provide £160 million in response to Yemen’s humanitarian crisis this financial year (2020/21). This brings our overall commitment to Yemen to £970 million since the conflict began in 2015.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 04/06/2020 16:23:09 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4632 label Biography information for Anna McMorrin

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registered interest
date	01/06/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Yemen: Humanitarian Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent discussions she had with international counterparts on the urgent need for increased pledged funding for humanitarian aid programmes in Yemen.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff North
tabling member printed	Anna McMorrin
uin	52364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2020 answer text <p>Over the last month the International Development Secretary and I have held several calls with our counterparts, including from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Kuwait, to stress the importance of donors providing funds to the humanitarian response in Yemen.</p><p>UK officials have also held similar discussions with their counterparts around the world.</p><p>The UK announced our new pledge of £160 million in humanitarian funding for Yemen in the 2020/21 financial year at the Yemen Pledging Conference on 2 June, taking our total commitment since the conflict began to £970 million.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 08/06/2020 15:50:18 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4632 label Biography information for Anna McMorrin