Alison McGovern – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alison McGovern on 2015-10-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress the Government is making on meeting the UK’s international obligations to refugees fleeing Syria.

Mr Desmond Swayne

The UK has been at the forefront of the response to the Syrian crisis. To date, we have committed over £1.1 billion. This makes us the second largest bilateral after the US and means we have done more than any other European country.