Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to paragraphs 4.77- 4.79 of the report entitled The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund's aid spending: A performance review, published by the Independent Commission for Aid Impact in March 2018, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund increases global security.

The Government is taking a series of measures to further increase the effectiveness of the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) following the Independent Commission for Aid Impact’s (ICAI) review. The reviewers praised the fund for being flexible and responsive to UK national security priorities, for demonstrating excellent conflict analysis and for mainstreaming gender equality and conflict sensitivity across programmes. Details are set out in the Government’s response to the Commission’s review, published on 10 May and available on GOV.UK. More detail about the CSSF’s wider work to improve global security will be in the Fund’s 2017-18 Annual Report, to be published this month.