§ Lord Gainfordasked Her Majesty's Government:
What assistance they are giving to alleviate the plight of 250,000 Rohingya refugees from Burma who fled to Bangladesh at the end of 1991.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Employment (Lord Henley)Her Majesty's Government have provided some £1.2 million for the Rohingyas via the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Red Cross/Crescent movement. My noble friend the Minister for Overseas Development has approved a further £1 million in response to recent UN appeals for both care and maintenance programmes and for the official repatriation programme now expected to get under way, following agreements between the Burma authorities and UNHCR.