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Minister of State for International Development, Alan Duncan, opens the UK aid international disaster response facility in Kemble, Gloucestershire. He met the team who manage the UK’s disaster response at Kemble and viewed the range of cutting-edge products that ensure UK aid gets to where it's most needed as quickly as possible when a disaster strikes. Supplies of vehicles, tents, field office facilities, kit bags and other essential equipment are stored at Kemble to support the rapid deployment of humanitarian experts anywhere in the world. The facility has already played a vital role in helping the British government to launch humanitarian responses at short notice into a range of different environments. The new Operations Hub will improve the UK’s capability to respond to the increasing frequency and complexity of future disasters, sending more equipment and more people into the places it is needed most. This will help to fulfil the government’s policy commitment to substantially increase its capability to deliver humanitarian assistance, and directly responds to the ambitions set out in Lord Ashdown’s review of humanitarian emergency response in 2011. Following the visit Alan Duncan said: “The UK is quite rightly regarded as a world leader in the area of humanitarian response. Residents of Gloucestershire can be proud of the role that their local area plays in helping the UK to save lives when disaster strikes abroad.” “From the ongoing conflict in Syria, to the recent floods in Pakistan, and the earthquakes in Japan and Haiti, the disaster response facility here in Kemble has helped life-saving UK aid to be delivered rapidly to where it is needed most.” The facilities at Kemble are also used by the government to test how some of the most innovative products on the market can be used in the UK’s humanitarian response. On his visit, Alan Duncan saw demonstrations of water and sanitation equipment by Butyl Products and shelter commodities by Reltex. They are two members of the government's Rapid Response Facility (RRF), a new network made up of top UK-based businesses and charities able to provide essential life-saving support in the critical first 72 hours following a disaster. He also met with local business Cotswold Outdoors, which provides items such as first aid kits and sleeping bags used by the government’s humanitarian specialists to help those affected by disasters around the world. |
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