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date	17/07/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Development Aid: Gender
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of his Department's aid was targeted to projects with gender equality as a (a) principal objective, (b) significant objective and (c) not-gender related in each of the last 5 years.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	75998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2020 answer text <p>The UK's Gender Equality Act 2014 (an amendment to 2002 International Development Act, IDA) requires all overseas development funding to consider the impact of how it will contribute to reducing gender inequality. The UK Aid Strategy prioritises the rights of women and girls under its fourth strategic goal of tacking extreme poverty and helping the world's most vulnerable. The FCO support a number of Official Development Assistance programmes targeted at promoting girls' education, empowering women peacebuilders and supporting female survivors of sexual violence in conflict. The programmes include lobbying efforts encouraging foreign governments to prioritise girls' education reforms, financial support for women mediator organisations, capacity building programmes for female judges and women peacebuilders and consultations with survivors of sexual violence.</p><p>Additional information on the FCO's ODA programmes can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/official-development-assistance-fco-programme-spend.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 22/07/2020 16:21:35 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1217610

registered interest
date	24/06/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Development Aid: Gender
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office will be required to consider gender inequality ahead of allocating aid and other resources.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	64127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2020 answer text <p>The UK's Gender Equality Act 2014 (an amendment to 2002 International Development Act, IDA), legally requires all overseas development funding to meaningfully consider the impact of how it will contribute to reducing gender inequality. The UK Aid Strategy prioritises the rights of women and girls under its fourth strategic goal of tackling extreme poverty and helping the world's most vulnerable.</p><p>Spending 0.7 percent of our national income on aid is enshrined in law and the UK continues to abide by the OECD DAC rules for aid, which include the consideration of gender equality in how aid is spent. We will continue to look at how this money can be spent most effectively, including through the Integrated Review - which will inform the priorities of the new Department.</p><p>Any decisions on spending aid will be taken by the ministerial team in the new Department, overseen by the Foreign Secretary and drawing on the expertise of FCDO staff.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 02/07/2020 09:45:39 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1217611

registered interest
date	24/06/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Development Aid: Gender
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office will continue to publish reports on how that Department is supporting (a) gender quality and (b) women's empowerment.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	64128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2020 answer text <p>The UK remains fully committed to supporting gender equality and women's empowerment, including every girl's right to 12 years of quality education. The integrated foreign policy review is expected to conclude later in the year, which will define the Government's ambition for the UK's role in the world and its outcomes will shape the objectives of the new Department. Both the review and the merger are evidence of the Prime Minister's commitment to a unified British foreign policy that will maximise our influence around the world, including on gender equality and women's empowerment.</p><p>The FCO reports annually on its gender equality work in the FCO Annual report and the FCO Annual Human Rights Report. DFID's Annual Report and Accounts provides an update on key results, including on gender equality, every year. The FCDO will continue to report annually on how the Department is supporting gender equality and women's empowerment.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 02/07/2020 09:47:58 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas