§ Dr. TongeTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development what financial resources her Department has allocated to the UN agencies and NGOs that are providing assistance to third country nationals, refugees and returnees in West Africa. [102265]
§ Clare ShortI have recently approved £5 million for several humanitarian interventions in response to the United Nations Consolidated Appeals for West Africa. This comprises contributions to UN organisations, the International Committee for the Red Cross programmes in Cote D'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone; to Medicins Sans Frontiere (B) for a health project in Liberia and to Merlin for a health intervention in Cote D'Ivoire. This is in addition to substantial contributions from DFID last year.