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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