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<p>The United Nations report that 14.4 million people in Yemen are facing food insecurity,
of which 7.6 million are facing severe food shortages, as cited in the UN’s 2016 Yemen
Humanitarian Response Plan. The UK government uses this UN report as one if its primary
data sources. A number of humanitarian organisations have recently highlighted the
acute food security and livelihood needs in Yemen, and the fact that food insecurity
is likely to continue at a critical level in the coming months.</p><p>The security
situation in Yemen is impacting the ability of humanitarian organisations to access
populations to deliver assistance, and to make assessments of their needs. The UK
continues to remind all parties to the conflict to take all reasonable steps to facilitate
rapid and safe access for humanitarian agencies to all people in need in Yemen. This
is essential to ensure that the international community has an accurate understanding
of the levels of need in the country, including food insecurity.</p><p>The UK is the
4<sup>th</sup> largest donor to the crisis in Yemen and has more than doubled its
humanitarian support over the last year to £85 million for 2015/16. We work through
UN agencies and NGOs, including the World Food Programme who provide emergency food
support to over 570,000 people, through direct delivery of food or the provision of
cash or food vouchers. We have also provided £21.7 million in 2015/16 to UNICEF for
the provision of health and nutrition services through hospitals and mobile clinics.
We are also funding the UN Verification and Inspection Mechanism to improve the supply
of essential commercial goods, including food, into Yemen.</p>
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