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, what percentage difference is in ODA spending on Girls Education between 2021-22 and 2020-21.

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, which will help to achieve the 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

Final audited spend for 2020/21 will be published in the Annual Report and Accounts. Final 2020 spend will be published in Statistics on International Development: Final UK Aid Spend 2020 in the autumn this year and will contain detailed breakdowns of the UK's ODA spend for 2020, including an activity level dataset.