Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many disease-specific programmes they have (1) reduced, and (2) cancelled, as a result of the reduction of the foreign aid budget by £2.9 billion announced in July.

Difficult decisions have been necessary to identify the savings required. The First Secretary chaired a review process across government looking at all strands of the ODA budget ensuring support for five ODA priorities; bottom billion poverty reduction, climate change, girls' education, COVID-19 and Britain as a force for good. The national statistic reporting on ODA spending (Statistics for International Development) published in 2021 will provide a full breakdown of the UK's ODA spend for 2020.