Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he discussed the 2021-22 budgets for (a) education and (b) girls education at his meeting with the Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Girls’ Education on on 17 February 2021.
The Foreign Secretary met Helen Grant MP on 17 February to discuss her appointment as UK Special Envoy for Girls' Education, and their joint vision for her role in the year ahead. The conversation focused predominantly on stakeholder engagement, particularly in the lead up to the UK's co-hosting of the financing summit for the Global Partnership for Education in July.