Chris Elmore corrected a written answer on Sudan: Armed Conflict

27 November 2025 · Commons written answer · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Wendy Morton (Conservative, Aldridge-Brownhills) asked written question 91353 on 17 November 2025. Chris Elmore answered on 19 November 2025 for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and Chris Elmore corrected the answer on 27 November 2025. The corrected text adds the figures 650,000, £125 million, which the original did not give. Altogether 107 words differ between the two versions.

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Department is taking in its capacity as penholder on Sudan at the UN Security Council to secure a ceasefire and to strengthen international action in response to recent atrocities in Darfur.

Original and corrected answer

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Original	Corrected
I refer the ~~Rt Hon~~ Member to the ~~written evidence provided~~ by the ~~Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)~~ to the ~~inquiry~~ by the International Development Committee into the FCDO's Approach to Value for Money in Official Development Assistance, which can be found here: https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/142772/default/.	I refer the Hon. Member to the statement made by the Foreign Secretary to the House on 18 November 2025. As the Foreign Secretary said: "The UK has committed over £125 million this year alone, delivering lifesaving support to over 650,000 people - treating children with severe malnutrition, providing water and medicine, and supporting survivors of rape. [...] We are urgently pressing for a three-month humanitarian truce to open routes for lifesaving supplies...we desperately need a lasting ceasefire underpinned by a serious political process."

Original

Corrected

I refer the ~~Rt Hon~~ Member to the ~~written evidence provided~~ by the ~~Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)~~ to the ~~inquiry~~ by the International Development Committee into the FCDO's Approach to Value for Money in Official Development Assistance, which can be found here: https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/142772/default/.

I refer the Hon. Member to the statement made by the Foreign Secretary to the House on 18 November 2025.
As the Foreign Secretary said: "The UK has committed over £125 million this year alone, delivering lifesaving support to over 650,000 people - treating children with severe malnutrition, providing water and medicine, and supporting survivors of rape. [...] We are urgently pressing for a three-month humanitarian truce to open routes for lifesaving supplies...we desperately need a lasting ceasefire underpinned by a serious political process."

The question and answer on the Parliament website.

Receipt

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Date read	15 October 2026
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