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Middle East: Refugees

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Question for Department for International Development

UIN 904134, tabled on 10 March 2016

Question

David T. C. Davies
Conservative
Monmouth
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to support refugees in camps in the Middle East.

Answer

Mr Desmond Swayne
Conservative
New Forest West
Commons

Answered on

16 March 2016

At the Syria Conference the UK announced that we will more than double our commitment to the Syria crisis, to £2.3 billion. The UK supports refugees, displaced and vulnerable people and host communities across the Middle East including in Yemen, Iraq and the occupied Palestinian territories.

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