To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of her Department's policy of matching contributions to a scheme to assist residents in Sunamganj, Bangladesh deal with severe flooding.

DFID agreed to provide £5 million in match funding for Islamic Relief’s 2012 Ramadan appeal. A proposal to use £1.5 million of this match funding in Bangladesh, for a project helping communities to better cope with natural disasters and climate change, is currently under consideration, but funding has not been confirmed.