Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Autumn Statement on his Department's ability to tackle malnutrition internationally.

The UK is committed to tackling malnutrition and improving health outcomes for women and girls. Prevention and treatment of malnutrition is vital for the FCDO's work on global health, humanitarian response and in support of the UK goals on girls' education. Spend will be focussed according to the priorities set out in the International Development Strategy, these include global health and ending the preventable deaths of women, babies and children. In due course, we intend to update planned ODA allocations and the spending commitments set out in the International Development Strategy.