Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh on 2016-01-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken with the UN and others to establish a regular, scheduled UN-facilitated cargo flight service into Yemen.

Mr Desmond Swayne

DFID has provided £1 million to the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) to establish a regular flight between Djibouti and Sana’a for the exclusive use of the humanitarian community. UNHAS has provided 88 flights since the crisis began, carrying 2,129 passengers and 8.6 metric tons of essential medical supplies. 14 UN agencies and 28 NGOs are now using the service. We are also working with UNHAS to establish other regular flight services to Yemen.