Turkey: Development Aid
Commons · Question 112995 · Tabled 11 Feb 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record
Answered 2 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by James McMurdock
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Building Refugee Resilience and Inclusion in Turkey programme does not act as a pull factor encouraging further migration to that
Answer
Answered by Stephen Doughty, 2 Mar 2026
The Government is working with Turkey to help it manage the challenges of hosting approximately 2.3 million refugees, the majority of whom have fled conflict and persecution in Syria. The February 2023 earthquakes near the Turkish-Syrian border had a deva...