Sudan
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Ian Paisley Jnr (North Antrim, DUP)
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information his Department holds on the number of South Sudanese living in Sudan.
Alan Duncan (Minister of State, International Development; Rutland and Melton, Conservative)
I have been asked to reply
on behalf of the Department for International Development.
According to the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Humanitarian Aid Commission, there are approximately 220,000 South Sudanese remaining in Sudan. The previous figure used, based on the 2009 census, was 500,000.
