Question follow-through · 36
Sudan: Famine
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help reduce famine in Sudan.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 26 Jul 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to help reduce famine in Sudan.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jul 2024
Answer published
The conflict in Sudan has created a manmade humanitarian disaster with 8.5 million people facing emergency or famine conditions, more than Gaza, South Sudan, Mali, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan combined. This financial year, UK bilateral ODA to Sudan will i...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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