Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant of the Written Statement of 21 April 2021 on FCDO update, Official Report HCWS935, how much of the Girls Education spending will be for projects in (a) Afghanistan, (b) South Sudan, (c) Sudan, (d) Yemen, (e) Somalia and (f) Myanmar.

The Foreign Secretary laid a statement before the House of Commons on 21 April 2021, setting out how he is directing the FCDO's aid portfolio this year. He announced that the FCDO will spend £400 million on girls' education, investing directly in over 25 countries, to help achieve he global target of getting 40 million girls into education. FCDO will now work through what this means for individual programmes in line with the priorities outlined.