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date	03/04/2019
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, with reference to reports of aid to Yemen being stolen by armed groups in the country, what steps her Department is taking to ensure aid for Yemen reaches the people who most need it.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	240628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>We are acutely aware of the risks of delivering life-saving assistance in the midst of Yemen’s conflict. DFID has a zero-tolerance policy to the diversion of UK aid funds and seeks to minimise the risks to ensure life-saving assistance reaches those who need it most.</p><p>We do this by only channelling support through organisations with a strong record of delivering and monitoring assistance, such as UN agencies and international NGOs. All of DFID’s partners and programmes are also subject to rigorous and regular due diligence to ensure that UK aid goes directly to those who need it most. Moreover, we fund an independent monitoring programme that provides third-party verification of results that partners have reported to back to DFID.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 08/04/2019 16:10:38 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

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date	03/04/2019
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 progress her Department has made on the distribution of the £200 million pledged in Geneva on 26 February 2019 by the Government for the alleviation of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	240495
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>On 24 February, the Prime Minister announced that the UK would provide an additional £200 million in response to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen for the coming 2019/20 financial year.</p><p> </p><p>This support brings the total UK commitment to Yemen to £770 million since the conflict began in 2015 and will provide vital food assistance right across the country to those most at risk of dying from starvation and disease, meeting the immediate food needs of more than 1 million Yemenis each month over the year, treating 30,000 children for malnutrition and providing over 1 million people with improved water supply and basic sanitation.</p><p> </p><p>Now that the 2019/20 financial year has begun we will make our first disbursements of this funding over the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 10/04/2019 10:35:40 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz