PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Rohingya: Refugees (10 January 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many charities and non-governmental organisations received funding from her Department for projects relating to the Rohingya refugee crisis; and which of those charities and organisations are based locally or nationally in the regions where those refugees are located.

Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)

DFID provides funding direct to eight NGOs responding to the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh. Six of these have a permanent presence in in Cox’s Bazar, which is the region of Bangladesh where the refugees are located. We are not funding any NGOs within Burma’s northern Rakhine State.

Answered by:
Alistair Burt (Conservative)
15 January 2018