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Syria: Reconstruction

Question for Department for International Development

UIN HL3494, tabled on 22 November 2017

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 21 November (HL3104), on what grounds they are withholding reconstruction aid from the Jazira and Kobane cantons of northern Syria pending a comprehensive political transition, given that they have been freed from Daesh and that schools, hospitals and private homes have suffered damage.

Answered on

5 December 2017

The UK will continue to work with the UN to develop its plans for Syria following a national settlement of the conflict. However, we will provide no support for reconstruction until a comprehensive, genuine and inclusive political transition is firmly underway.

While the conflict is ongoing, our priority is to deliver life-saving humanitarian aid. DFID-funded partners are providing support in north-east Syria including to Kobane and Jazira.