Sarah Champion – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Champion on 2014-04-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the levels of poverty among Tamils living in Sri Lanka.

Mr Alan Duncan

Sri Lanka has met Millennium Development Goal No 1 which calls for the halving of extreme poverty, and is on track to meet most other MDGs. Poverty remains in areas of northern and eastern Sri Lanka where large numbers of Tamils live. We do not have a breakdown by ethnic group.