Sudan: Children
Commons · Question 48119 · Tabled 25 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record
Answered 7 May 2025
Question
Asked by Wendy Morton
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2025 to Question 39002 on Sudan: Children, what steps he is taking to help support children back to school in Sudan.
Answer
Answered by Hamish Falconer, 7 May 2025
In late 2024, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) assessed that nearly 90 per cent of Sudan's school age children (17 million against a population of 19 million) were no longer in school with armed violence a key driver. UK funding to UNICEF, the ...