Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the impact of reductions in funding to Save the Children on their work in Afghanistan.

Given the Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding constraints it has been necessary to revise allocations across FCDO. To minimise negative impacts, we cut programmes that had yet to mobilise or were in early stages of mobilisation.

This financial year we will continue to support Save the Children's work through schemes like the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, the Girls' Education Challenge, and the Global Partnership for Education. We will continue to ensure the UK's ODA funding is allocated where it is most effective, delivering on its aims while providing value for money to the UK taxpayer.