Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much of her Department's expenditure on education was incurred on (a) projects directly targeting disabled children and (b) broader projects on education in the most recent year for which figures are available.
DFID has supported 11m children in school between 2010-2015 and has pledged to support 11m girls and boys with a decent education between 2015 and 2020. DFID’s disability framework can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/487924/DFID-Disability-Framework-2015a.pdf.
However, we do have some programmes focusing on marginalised people, including those with disabilities. One example is the £355m Girls Education Challenge (GEC) which runs 37 projects across 18 countries over 5 years. It supports up to 1 million marginalised girls, including those with disabilities, to progress through primary and secondary school by 2017. Within the GEC, there are two projects that focus exclusively on getting girls with disabilities back into school and learning (in Kenya and Uganda). The total budget for the lifetime of these two projects is £5.1m.