Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans her Department has to work with France and Senegal to replenish funds for the Global Partnership for Education to 2020.

DFID’s has been the largest bilateral donor to the Global Partnership for Education, providing £210m for the 2015-2018 replenishment period. We are pleased that France and Senegal will jointly host the replenishment conference in February 2018, which provides an excellent opportunity to bring more finance into the education sector. Officials in DFID are in discussion with their counterparts in France about this replenishment, and we look forward to working with both France and Senegal further in advance of the conference.