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1700220

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps his Department is taking to help international education systems prepare for natural disasters.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
	tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
	uin	21202
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>In 2023, we pledged £80 million to Education Cannot Wait (ECW), a global fund for education in emergencies, central to supporting education resilience in the face of increasing natural and man-made disasters. The FCDO's position paper, 'Addressing the Climate, Environment, and Biodiversity Crises in and through Girls' Education' (2022), provides a framework of priority actions to build resilient and climate smart school systems. Increasingly, our bilateral education programmes are building climate resilience, and we are working, as leading donors, through global education funds - Global Partnership for Education and ECW - to protect education in the face of disasters.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 23/04/2024 12:54:54 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1700384

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps his Department is taking to (a) support the (i) recruitment, (ii) retention and (iii) professional development of (A) teachers and (B) educational staff in crisis-affected countries and (b) invest in their (1) safety and (2) working conditions.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
	tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
	uin	21271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>The FCDO supports the education workforce in crises-affected countries through our support to multilateral partners; our bilateral programmes; and our wider policy work on strengthening education systems and foundational learning. The UK is the second largest donor to Education Cannot Wait, which has funded the recruitment and/or financial support for nearly 170,000 teachers between 2016 and 2022. The UK is also the second largest donor to the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), which spends over 60 percent of its funds in fragile and conflict affected states and directly supports teacher recruitment, training and safer school environments.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 23/04/2024 12:55:38 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1657763

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2023
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress his Department has made on the development of the SCALE programme; and which countries will be included in that programme.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	197404
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>Scaling Access and Learning in Education (SCALE) will increase the delivery of cost-effective education interventions in low and lower middle-income countries (LICs and LMICs).</p><p>SCALE will provide technical support to adapt evidence-based approaches to new contexts and implement rigorous test-learn-adapt pilots to prepare these for scaling in national systems.</p><p>SCALE is in its inception phase. Progress is underway to mobilise technical expertise and scope high-potential pilots. Technical assistance will be available to all ODA-eligible countries. Pilots will focus on LICs and LMICs and will be selected against a set of rigorous criteria (found in the SCALE business case on DevTracker).</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 07/09/2023 14:20:41 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1654849

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2023
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the UK's contribution to Global Education initiatives.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast South
	tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
	uin	195590
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2023 answer text <p>Ensuring access to quality education is an FCDO priority. The UK is committed to supporting this through the global education funds. We are the largest donor to the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), pledging £430 million in 2021. We pledged £80 million to Education Cannot Wait (ECW) in February 2023. We have been at the forefront of developing the new International Finance Facility for Education. Beyond financing, we launched a global Commitment to Action on foundational learning with partners in 2022. 29 countries have signed up to date, committing to ensure basic education for all children, especially the most marginalised.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 08/09/2023 13:49:54 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1645711

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2023
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to consult with children's groups to help tackle barriers to education in developing countries.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	190178
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2023 answer text <p>The FCDO is committed to addressing barriers to education. An essential part of this is engaging with children, particularly girls, on the issues that affect them. In May 2023, officials met with adolescent girls to hear about the barriers to education they are facing, including early marriage, gender-based violence, poverty and conflict. Girls' Clubs, implemented through the UK's Girls' Education Challenge projects, consult students on the barriers they face to education and how best to overcome them. Club members in the Somali Girls' Education Promotion Programme achieved significantly higher gains in learning - 6.6 percentage points over and above their peers.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 27/06/2023 14:35:33 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1587189

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2023
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what (a) recent steps and (b) funding his Department has provided to ensure that children across the world have access to education.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	148668
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>Ensuring 12 years of quality education for all children is an FCDO priority. We have made significant investments through global funds to achieve this, pledging £430 million to the Global Partnership for Education in 2021, as well as £80 million to Education Cannot Wait in February 2023 and £10 million for projects to support education in emergencies. Last year we launched the Commitment to Action on foundational learning to reduce learning poverty by 50 percent by 2030. We run bilateral education programmes in 19 countries and our Girls' Education Challenge programme has given 1.6 million marginalised girls access to quality education.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 27/02/2023 16:08:52 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1585126

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2023
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of its education programmes on children’s foundational learning.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	141660
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2023 answer text <p>The 2022 Independent Commission for Aid Impact report rated the FCDO's education results between 2015-2020 as 'green/amber', demonstrating the effectiveness of our programmes in supporting a decent education for children. The report recommended FCDO accelerate work with partner governments to improve its ability to collect and use good data on children's learning. As a result, we have developed a new Data for Foundational Learning programme, of up to £27 million (2023 - 2027), to strengthen the data on children's learning in low- and middle-income countries. Additionally, we are working to improve our results framework to better measure impact on improving learning.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 15/02/2023 15:51:39 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1585127

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2023
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to increase the level of Official Development Assistance allocated for education, including for literacy and numeracy projects, in countries with low literacy rates.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	141661
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2023 answer text <p>The UK is one of the most generous global aid donors, spending £11 billion in 2021, much of it through FCDO interventions. We will focus future spend in line with the International Development Strategy, particularly focusing on support for women and girls, while maximising value for money and flexibility to respond to new priority issues. Development is not only about Official Development Assistance. UK support to global education also includes valuable partnerships and the power to convene others, such as through our co-hosting of the Global Education Summit in 2021, which raised $4 billion for the Global Partnership for Education.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 15/02/2023 15:49:58 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1525028

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2022
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to allocate £170 million to the UN Education Cannot Wait fund over the next three years.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	68550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2022 answer text <p>The UK Government is proud to be a co-founding member and leading donor to Education Cannot Wait (ECW). We are working through options for our future commitment to ECW. The Government remains committed to transparency and will provide an update to Parliament on spending plans in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 01/11/2022 09:26:02 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain