Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025 report, published on 28 July 2025, what steps his Department plans to take to support initiatives to close the financing gap for (a) food security and (b) nutrition.

We are committed to addressing global food insecurity and malnutrition, this includes working to scale-up finance from diverse sources towards more sustainable, nutritious, and resilient food systems. We leverage financial reforms and systems change through the International Financial Institutions and the UN system, and crowd in private and philanthropic investment. This must be done in partnership. We are supporting global initiatives and new approaches to partnership with the Global South, like the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty and the Global Compact on Nutrition Integration to accelerate action and unlock finance. The UK is also a co-founder of the Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) and remains committed to its success. The CNF supports partner governments in scaling up a range of high-impact nutrition interventions, including provision of ready-to-use therapeutic foods for the treatment of wasting.