Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much his Department spent on ending violence against women and girls in 2020.

The latest data on UK ODA spend was published in the Statistics on International Development: Provisional UK Aid Spend 2020 document on 8 April 2021. A full breakdown of 2020 spend by sector code (including violence against women and girls) will be published in autumn 2021.

2019 spend data shows that a total of £68.9 million of UK ODA was spent on violence against women and girls, £36.2 million of which was through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department for International Development.