Global Partnership for Education: Finance

(asked on 11th May 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if the Government will pledge £600 million to the Global Partnership for Education over the next five years.


Answered by
Wendy Morton Portrait
Wendy Morton
This question was answered on 17th May 2021

The Prime Minister and President Kenyatta of Kenya will co-host the Global Education Summit: Financing the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) in London in July 2021. No decision has yet been taken on the UK's next contribution to GPE, and details will follow in due course.

As co-hosts of the Summit, we are using all the means at our disposal to help the GPE in securing its five-year rolling financing target of up to $5 billion (2021-2026). A well-funded GPE will be central to delivering the two ambitious global objectives endorsed by the G7 Foreign and Development Ministers in London on 5 May of getting 40 million more girls in school, and 20 million more girls reading by age 10 in the next 5 years.

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