Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what grants they made for rainforest protection in the last year for which data are available; and whether they will list in a table the recipients of each grant and the amount provided.

In 2018, approximately £74.6 million of bilateral International Climate Finance (ICF) was spent, in the form of grants, on forestry and forestry policy and administration with a further £11.8 million spent on forestry through contributions to multilateral climate funds.

Details of UK ICF spending are reported to, and published by, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat biennially. The most recent publication covers years 2017 and 2018 and can be found at: https://unfccc.int/BRs. This dataset lists all ICF programmes with their spend and benefitting countries, where this data is available. In addition, details of all UK ICF programmes can be found at Development Tracker (fcdo.gov.uk).

The UK Government remains committed to doubling our International Climate Finance to £11.6 billion over the five years 2021/22 - 2025/26, of which at least £3 billion will be invested to protect and restore nature and biodiversity including at least £1.5 billion to support the global pledge to halt deforestation made at COP26 (Over 100 leaders make landmark pledge to end deforestation at COP26 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).