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Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 182477

Syria and Turkey: Earthquakes

Tabled: 24 April 2023
Answered: 3 May 2023

Question

Carla Lockhart

Democratic Unionist Party — Upper Bann

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to provide ongoing support to Turkey and Syria in response to the earthquake in February 2023.

Answer

Sir Andrew Mitchell

The UK is a committed humanitarian donor globally and responded swiftly to the devastating earthquakes to provide life-saving assistance to the people of Turkey and Syria. Now that we are out of the emergency response phase, the UK will continue to stand in solidarity with Turkey and to look at what more we can do to support the longer term recovery effort. For the people of Syria, we continue to focus on providing life-saving and life-sustaining assistance, as well as early recovery activities. This is alongside our existing support to the Syria Crisis, which has totalled over £3.8 billion since 2012.