Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of the Overseas Development Aid budget was allocated to ending the preventable deaths of (a) mothers, (b) new-borns and (c) children in 2020 and 2021.

We do not calculate spend on ending preventable deaths interventions in their totality. As set out in the UK's Ending the Preventable Deaths of mothers, babies and children (EPD) Approach paper, EPD requires work across sectors to address the complex pathways leading to mortality, including family planning, nutrition, water and sanitation and health systems strengthening.

FCDO spend is calculated using OECD-DAC sector codes. Details of FCDO spend by sector code for 2020 is available in the Statistics on International Development publication here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-international-development and details of FCDO spend for 2021 will be published on the same page later this year.