Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much UK (a) bilateral and (b) multilateral Official Development Assistance was spent on (i) LGBT support programmes and (ii) other human rights programmes in Egypt in the 2021 calendar year.

All bilateral and multilateral UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) spent in Egypt considers human rights, including LGBT and gender rights. Total UK bilateral aid to Egypt was £16.3 million in 2021 as published in November 2022, the 'Statistics on International Development: final UK aid spend 2021' (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-aid-spend-2021). It is not possible to directly track UK ODA core funding to multilateral organisations as it is pooled with other donors. The UK uses data on the destination and sector of UK multilateral ODA based on estimates published by the OECD DAC to produce an imputed figure for each destination country. Figures for multilateral spend in Egypt are not yet available.

Egypt is a human rights priority country for the UK. We actively monitor reports of torture and mistreatment in detention of LGBT+ people in Egypt. We regularly raise human rights with the Egyptian Government, which is well aware of our position on LGBT+ rights and we call on the government of Egypt to uphold and protect the rights of everyone in Egypt. Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon most recently raised human rights with the Egyptian Ambassador on the 5 December 2022. We will continue to raise these issues with the Egyptian authorities bilaterally and in conjunction with our international partners.