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1440124

registered interest
date	11/03/2022
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	Education: Females
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 she has made in allocating the increased funding to support women and girls announced in the 2021 Spending Review; and how much of that funding has been allocated to programmes with a focus on ensuring access to education.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	138309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2022 answer text <p>We are restoring funding for women and girls to pre-ODA cut levels over the Spending Review period, focusing on giving more girls a quality education; ending the extremely harmful practice of female genital mutilation, supporting girls' health; and ending the abhorrent use of sexual violence around the world.</p><p>Following the Spending Review, decisions on allocations and individual programmes will be published in the usual way.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 21/03/2022 09:37:13 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1347729

registered interest
date	16/07/2021
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	Education: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much official development assistance will be spent in 2021-22 on supporting girls’ education; and how much was spent in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	34549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>The FCDO will spend £400 million of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) on girls' education in 2021. We are not in a position to draw or comment on comparisons to previous years at this stage. ODA is reported on a calendar year basis, and includes sectoral breakdowns, such as education. The Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office's National Statistics publication, 'Statistics on International Development,' includes this information. Provisional ODA for 2020 spend is available through this, with sectoral breakdowns due to be published in the autumn. The UK's ODA spend for 2021, including an activity level dataset, will be published in 2022.</p><p>The FCDO publishes regular open data through the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). This operational data covers current live programmes, and will include spend for 2021 once business planning is concluded. The raw data can be accessed at the IATI Registry, and is shown on the Development Tracker website: https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 21/07/2021 16:40:00 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1347732

registered interest
date	16/07/2021
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	Education: Females
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 plans his Department has as to how the £400 million of ODA funding allocated to girls' education for 2021-2022 will be spent.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	34571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>We are not able to discuss the specifics for individual programmes whilst we are working through the implications of our programme spending for girls' education with partners. During the business planning process for Official Development Assistance (ODA), we took into account the delivery of our global targets on girls' education - to get 40 million more girls into school, and 20 million more reading in the next 5 years. The UK's ODA spend for 2021, including an activity level dataset, will be published in 2022.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 21/07/2021 16:43:02 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1347734

registered interest
date	16/07/2021
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	Education: Females
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 change in ODA budget allocation to girls education in 2021-22 compared to that change in (a) 2020-2021 and (b) 2019-2020.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	34572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>The FCDO will spend £400 million of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) on girls' education in 2020. We are not a position to draw or comment on comparisons to previous years at this stage. ODA is reported on a calendar year basis, and includes sectoral breakdowns, such as education. The Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office's (FCDO) National Statistics publication, 'Statistics on International Development,' includes this information. Provisional ODA spend for 2020 is available, with sectoral breakdowns due to be published in the autumn. The UK's ODA spend for 2021, including an activity level dataset, will be published in 2021.</p><p>The FCDO publishes regular open data through the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). This operational data covers current live programmes, and will include 2021 spend once business planning is concluded. The raw data can be accessed at IATI Registry, and is shown on the Development Tracker website: https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 21/07/2021 16:43:51 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1346406

registered interest
date	13/07/2021
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	Education: Females
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 steps his Department is taking to ensure that girls receive 12 years of quality education throughout the world.
tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
tabling member printed	Dr Kieran Mullan
uin	32551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2021 answer text <p>Standing up for the right of every girl to 12 years of quality education is a priority for the UK Government. Between 2015 and 2020, the UK supported over 15 million children in gaining a decent education, of which 8 million were girls. 2021 is a year of UK leadership on the world stage. We have used our Presidency of the G7 to press for coordinated action on girls' education. In May, we secured G7 support for two, new ambitious global targets of getting 40 million more girls in school, and 20 million more girls reading by age 10 by 2026. We also agreed a declaration that prioritised girls' education in the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and outlined the collective action that the G7 will take in helping achieve these global targets.</p><p>On 28-29 July, along with Kenya, the UK will host the Global Education Summit to raise vital funds for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). At the G7 Leaders' Summit, the Prime Minister secured a landmark commitment from the G7 to provide at least $2.7 billion to the Global Partnership for Education. This includes £430 million from the UK, which is an uplift of 15% from our current position as top bilateral donor, and our largest ever pledge to the GPE.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 21/07/2021 15:08:24 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4860 label Biography information for Dr Kieran Mullan

1343033

registered interest
date	01/07/2021
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	Education: Females
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 he has made of the potential links between universal access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, girls’ education and climate change.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	25714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2021 answer text <p>The global climate crisis is a major threat to girls' education, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender equality. SRHR, including voluntary family planning, and girls' education have wide-ranging benefits for individuals and societies, including supporting their adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change. The UK is a proud defender of SRHR and champion of the right of all girls to twelve years of quality education. The UK is committed to delivering an inclusive COP26 that advances gender equality within climate action and finance. Our recently published COP Presidency paper 'Priorities for Public Climate Finance' sets out gender-responsive climate finance as a UK priority, which we are championing through our COP26 and G7 presidencies.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 25715 question first answered 09/07/2021 08:15:32 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1337825

registered interest
date	17/06/2021
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	Education: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference Government's commitment to education at the G7 in June 2021, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that its goal of increasing the number of girls who have access to 12 years of education will still be achieved following the reduction in aid spending from 0.7 to 0.5 per cent of GNI.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	17756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2021 answer text <p>2021 is a year of UK leadership on the world stage, including on girls' education. Meeting under the UK Presidency, G7 Foreign and Development Ministers endorsed two new, global, SDG 4 milestone targets on girls' education on 5 May, which we are calling on the world to help deliver, working in partnership with developing country partners, multilateral institutions, civil society, girl-led groups, and youth leaders. At the G7 Summit the Prime Minister announced a UK pledge of £430 million to the Global Partnership for Education, this is our largest ever pledge to GPE and an uplift of 15% from our current position as top bilateral donor. This significant pledge meant we were able to secure commitment from G7 partners of at least $2.7 billion to GPE contributing to GPE's rolling target of $5 billion over the next 5 years.</p><p>The FCDO will also spend £400 million of bilateral ODA on girls' education this year. This is separate from our pledge to GPE. This very substantial sustained investment of UK ODA is only one of our tools in achieving our ambitions.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 25/06/2021 11:59:00 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1314411

registered interest
date	13/05/2021
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	Education: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his Department's policy paper, Policy paper, Every girl goes to school, stay safe, and learns: five years of global action 2021 to 2026, published on 12 May 2021, what assessment the Government has made of the effectiveness of UNAIDS in ensuring that all girls finish secondary school which is evidenced to decrease the risk of HIV infection; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure that girls can access a reinforcing package of rights and empowerment.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	1063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2021 answer text <p>The UK regularly consults with civil society organisations and shares their determination to advocate for the rights and needs of the most marginalised groups affected by HIV. The UK remains committed to addressing HIV and AIDS through our commitments to the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and malaria and our work on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). We remain committed to a strong UNAIDS and we are fully engaged in the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 19/05/2021 09:02:03 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1273999

registered interest
date	06/01/2021
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	Education: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, for how long the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for European Neighbourhood and the Americas) will temporarily be responsible for girls' education.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	134047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>The Minister for European Neighbourhood and the Americas is responsible for the girls' education portfolio. Any potential changes to Ministerial portfolios will be communicated in the usual way.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 11/01/2021 12:10:10 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1247736

registered interest
date	02/11/2020
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	Education: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October to Question 101064, with reference to Save the Children's finding that the covid-19 pandemic has put 2.5 million girls at risk of child marriage and 1 million girls at risk of child pregnancy, what steps his Department is taking to prioritise the provision of safe education for girls in developing countries.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Bell Ribeiro-Addy
uin	110247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2020 answer text <p>The need to support education, particularly girls' education, has never been greater. The UK is committed to a safe return to school for children around the world. We must support education systems to respond and ensure girls and the most vulnerable get back to school and catch up on lost learning.</p><p>The UK is the largest bilateral donor to the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), which has flexed £400 million to support education systems globally at this unprecedented time. The Prime Minister recently announced that next year the UK will co-host GPE's financing summit: this will be a crucial step towards achieving this Government's ambition of 12 years of quality education for every girl.</p><p>The UK is the largest donor to Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fund for education in emergencies, and has provided an additional £5 million to reach the most vulnerable children in 33 countries during the pandemic. We announced £5.3 million of new UK funding to UNHCR to enable more than 5,000 teachers to provide vital education for children in 10 refugee-hosting countries up to early 2021. Bilaterally, we have adapted and reprioritised our education programmes in 18 countries to provide education and keep pupils safe.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 10/11/2020 17:46:01 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4764 label Biography information for Bell Ribeiro-Addy