Danny Kinahan – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Danny Kinahan on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to assist the Kurdistan region.

Mr Desmond Swayne

The UK has committed £79.5 million of humanitarian assistance to Iraq since summer 2014. This includes cash assistance, access to clean water, food, medicines and other life-saving assistance for the most vulnerable. Our partners distribute our aid on the basis of need across Iraq, including to internally displaced persons in northern Iraq.

Given the importance of a coordinated response, we are providing funding to UNDP to support the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Joint Crisis Centre (JCC), as well as its equivalent for the Government of Iraq, the Joint Crisis and Monitoring Centre (JCMC). In close collaboration with the JCMC, UN, donors and NGOs, the JCC is leading humanitarian efforts for the KRG.