Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on projects for women and girls in each year since 2005-06.

Empowering women and girls is an important and cross cutting priority for DFID. Since May 2014, under the International Development (Gender Equality) Act 2014 DFID is required to give regard to the contribution its assistance is likely to make to reducing gender inequality or to gender related differences in needs, before any assistance is provided.

The table below shows all spend where Gender Equality was either a “Principle” or “Significant” objective.