Hilary Benn – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hilary Benn on 2016-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance the UK is providing for reconstruction of Sinjar in Iraq.

Mr Desmond Swayne

Through the cross-Departmental Conflict Stability and Security Fund (CSSF), the UK has allocated £10 million in Iraq for 2015/16 to fund security and stabilisation work.

£2.5 million of this support has been pledged to the UN Development Programme’s (UNDP) Funding Facility for Immediate Stabilisation (FFIS). The FFIS is the principle mechanism for international support to stabilisation in Iraq and works to priorities set by the Iraqi authorities.

Assessments in Sinjar by the UNDP and other partners are proceeding. It is expected that FFIS-supported stabilisation activities will start in the near future.