| Heading: |
Food Aid: Finance |
| Question ID: |
1814776 |
| UIN: |
HL8636 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
3474 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Anelay of St Johns
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Anelay of St Johns
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase humanitarian funding for food assistance programmes in the light of the increase in the number of people facing catastrophic hunger. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-30 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
3972 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
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| Answering Member handle: |
JennyChapman
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@JennyChapman
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| Answer text: |
The UK is deeply concerned by rising levels of acute food insecurity and catastrophic hunger. We are a key government donor to the World Food Programme (WFP); in 2024 we contributed over $600 million to WFP initiatives, including in the Occupied Palestini... |
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| Answering body ID: |
208 |
| Answering body name: |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |