We are determined to use every mechanism available to raise the profile of this issue. We have doubled our aid to Sudan and work closely with the African Union on fact-finding missions.

We do not discuss the details of our sanctions policy publicly to avoid reducing their effectiveness.

We will continue to press for a ceasefire at the UN Security Council and have made it clear there is no reason for any other country to be involved in Sudan except humanitarian support.

We must ensure accountability through robust international instruments and expert determinations by organisations such as the International Criminal Court (ICC). We have been working with civil society mechanisms to gather information on gender-based violence from social media, which will feed into the overall picture for accountability.

We are seeking to use our role within the UN Security Council and our leadership of the Sudan core group within the UN Human Rights Council. Additionally, we seek bilateral and multilateral engagement to put these issues at the forefront, ensuring effective international instruments drive decisions on such matters.

The UK Government are determined to ensure that issues related to the safety of aid workers are raised and addressed. We seek to enable those working in dangerous situations to do so safely, protecting them under international humanitarian law.

We welcome the agreement to extend the opening of the Adre crossing beyond the initial three-month extension. We need the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to commit to urgently facilitating access across lines of conflict to get support to those in desperate need.

Following a disturbing determination by the IPC, we requested an urgent open briefing at the UN Security Council on 6 January to call for lifting of bureaucratic impediments, improved humanitarian access, and a political solution to prevent the deepening food and nutrition catastrophe.

The right hon. Gentleman asks about media coverage and intervention. I was pleased that the BBC produced a major package on Tom Fletcher’s visit and there has been UN engagement, which is incredibly important. We need more focus on the situation and we have supported journalists, fact-finders, investigators and experts to visit Sudan.

I reassure my hon. Friend that we are determined to do all that we can to ensure that lifesaving aid in food, healthcare and other means is delivered to people in need so that the people who are suffering so much in Sudan are protected.

The Government believe it is critical that we have an approach to determining genocide that is consistent with our obligations under the genocide convention and the Rome statute. To have trust internationally in the system, it is critical that we ensure there is a clear, impartial and independent methodology for the determination of genocide.

Yes, I do on all counts.

It is critical that the UK works with the US and we have been working with our US counterparts on this issue. We are also working with others within the region, particularly the African Union.

My hon. Friend is right: some of the reports we have heard in this regard are extremely disturbing. The UK supports UN bodies on this issue and ensures that we seek to support those who have been victims of these horrific crimes, including helping partners to provide clinical treatment, dignity kits and psychosocial services for survivors.

A number of different mechanisms have been advocated but so far, we have not seen those mechanisms deliver the results that are so desperately needed. The UK is determined to work with our partners and internationally for a ceasefire.

We have had conversations with a range of different countries. Our position remains that there should not be engagement of any other nation within Sudan unless it is to deliver humanitarian aid.

We have indeed been working with the ICC. The hon. Gentleman also talked about the UK’s role as penholder at the United Nations Security Council. That has been very important for us, particularly in seeking to get agreement about the protection of civilians.

We will seek to use every mechanism available to ensure that the UK is contributing to the protection of the women and young girls at such risk in Sudan.

Conflicts such as these tend to create refugees. The Government have made assessments and we continue to work with our partners.

I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind remarks. I have to say that I am so pleased to see that we have very strong cross-party concern on this issue and a determination to really make a difference for those suffering so much in Sudan and beyond its borders as refugees. He is right to point out that, should there continue to be this level of instability in Sudan itself, that will have a further knock-on impact. We are already seeing people in Chad under considerable pressure when it comes to food supplies as very large numbers of people are coming through from Sudan, and we have seen the same in South Sudan, so this conflict really is having a terrible impact regionally as well as in Sudan.