Sudan — Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:52 pm on 9 December 2014.

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Photo of Baroness Anelay of St Johns Baroness Anelay of St Johns Minister of State 2:52, 9 December 2014

My Lords, we are certainly aware of the extra aid that needs to be granted to these areas. We have been aware that more than 430,000 people have been displaced. DfID estimates that it will spend a minimum of £27 million on projects in Darfur alone. That includes funding to the World Food Programme and the Common Humanitarian

Fund in Darfur. We are urging the Government of Sudan and the Darfur rebel movements to engage fully in peace talks. We are also engaging with the difficulty of access to the two areas of Blue Nile and South Kordofan, where access for humanitarian aid is, to say the least, perilous.