Question reference: S6W-11284
- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 4 October 2022
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Current status: Answered by Neil Gray on 24 October 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of its Humanitarian Emergency Fund spending for the last 12 months.
Answer
Our independent Humanitarian Emergency Fund (HEF) Panel, supported by the HEF Secretariat, have prepared an Annual Report on HEF spend across 2021-22. In the interests of transparency and accountability, the Scottish Government will make this available on our website in due course.
In the meantime, I am able to confirm the Scottish Government's £1 million Humanitarian Emergency Fund was activated four times in the 2021-22 financial year. Additional funding of £4.4 million was provided to respond to crises in Ukraine and Malawi. A breakdown of funding allocations in 2021-22 is available in the following table.
Crisis Location | Activation Type | Recipient Organisation | Funding Amount |
South Sudan | HEF Stream 2 | Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) | £120,500 |
Christian Aid | £120,500 | ||
Afghanistan | HEF Stream 2 | Tearfund | £120,000 |
Christian Aid/Islamic Relief | £240,000 | ||
Afghanistan | HEF Stream 1A | Disasters Emergency Committee | £192,000 |
HEF Stream 1B | SCIAF | £48,000 | |
Burkina Faso | HEF Stream 2 | Tearfund | £123,000 |
N/A | HEF Secretariat Admin fee | Disasters Emergency Committee | £36,000 |
Malawi | Additional funding - Storm Ana flooding response | British Red Cross | £400,000 |
Ukraine | Additional funding - Ukraine humanitarian response | SCIAF | £500,000 |
British Red Cross | £500,000 | ||
Disasters Emergency Committee | £2,000,000 | ||
UNICEF | £1,000,000 |
To date, the HEF has been activated twice in the 2022-23 financial year. We have provided £250,000 to assist people affected by the hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa. This was split equally between Christian Aid, for work in Ethiopia, and Islamic Relief, for work in Somalia.
The Scottish Government have also committed £500,000 to respond to the floods in Pakistan, with £250,000 coming from the HEF and a further £250,000 from the Climate Justice Fund. £400,000 of this has been committed to the Disasters Emergency Committee Appeal, with the remainder split equally between the two non-DEC members of the HEF Panel, Mercy Corps and SCIAF.