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Yemen: Humanitarian Aid

Question for Department for International Development

UIN HL4932, tabled on 2 June 2020

To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent steps they have taken to support humanitarian relief in Yemen.

Answered on

16 June 2020

Last financial year (2019/20), UK aid helped feed over 650,000 Yemenis every month, treated over 70,000 children for malnutrition and provided over 1 million people with improved water supply and basic sanitation.

Minister Cleverly announced the UK’s new pledge of £160 million in humanitarian funding for Yemen in the 2020/21 financial year at the Yemen Pledging Conference on 2 June. This pledge makes us the third largest donor to Yemen in the world this year and takes our total commitment to Yemen to nearly £1 billion since the conflict began.