Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has taken recent steps with his international counterpart to agree multi-year funding settlements for (a) Unitaid and (b) other multilateral organisations.

I [Minister Mitchell] gave a Written Ministerial Statement [https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2023-03-30/hcws705] on 30 March setting out indicative figures for FCDO's Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget for 2022-2023 and 2023-2024. These include indicative figures for all multilateral organisations of £3.311 billion in 2022-2023 and £3.974 billion in 2023-2024. Funding settlements are being communicated to multilateral partners, including the health multilaterals and have already been sent to Unitaid.