Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government which countries have seen the highest reduction in UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) for sexual and reproductive health and rights since ODA cuts in 2020.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office annually reports on Official Development Assistance (ODA) expenditure via the Statistics on International Development publication. Details of UK ODA by sector code and recipient countries from 2017 to 2023 is available here: Statistics on International Development: final UK ODA spend 2023.

In line with the OECD Development Assistance Committee ODA reporting rules, ODA data is categorised using sector (or purpose) codes, which classify ODA activities by the sectors they benefit. Although some codes directly relate to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) - such as Family Planning or Reproductive Health - many others are not sufficiently granular to enable tracking of all ODA for SRHR.

While there is no agreed methodology across donors to capture SRHR expenditure, some partners such as the think tank Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung (DSW) have developed their own methodology for donor SRHR spend (published in their annual report: All Editions - Donors Delivering for SRHR. This methodology was designed to capture donor ODA flow for SRHR, however it does not include an analysis of SRHR ODA flow to specific recipient countries.