Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what support they are providing for the healthcare of women and girls in Syria; and whether they intend to ringfence funding within the Official Development Assistance budget for that purpose.

The UK does not ringfence funding specifically for women and girls. However, we put support to women and girls at the heart of all our work in Syria and require our partners to provide sex and age disaggregated data on the outcomes of UK-funded programmes. In financial year (FY) 2023/24, 53 per cent of UK humanitarian programming in Syria helped provide health, sexual and reproductive health services, education, and vocational training to over 690,000 women and girls. Through our health partner we delivered 783,649 medical consultations, of which 61 per cent were delivered to female beneficiaries. Through funding to UN organisations such as the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), the UK provided Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) and Gender Based Violence (GBV) services to 145,490 Syrians, of which 96 per cent were female.