Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what consultation the Government plans to hold with the private sector to measure progress on Sustainable Development Goal 5: achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, for the Voluntary National Review at the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in 2019.

Work on developing the UK’s 2019 Voluntary National Review is ongoing, and we will consult with a wide range of key stakeholders as we finalise our plans.

We will launch an online consultation to ensure we capture a wide range of views and inputs, and will be drawing on a range of sources to collect data and information, including:

• the UN’s global indicator framework for measuring global progress towards the SDGs;
• the UK’s Office for National Statistics’ National Reporting Platform on UK data for the SDGs;
• Single Departmental Plans in which government departments have embedded the SDGs; and
• departmental Annual Reports and Accounts in which departments are expected to report progress towards the SDGs.