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Written Question
British International Investment
Wednesday 26th February 2025

Asked by: Gareth Davies (Conservative - Grantham and Bourne)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his Department's press release entitled New partnerships with financial sector to unlock growth in UK and overseas, published on 3 February 2025, what role British International Investment will have in these partnerships; and how the scheme's funding will be (a) monitored and (b) measured.

Answered by Anneliese Dodds

British Investment International (BII) is a core part of the Government's partnership with private finance to mobilise investment into emerging markets, unlocking economic growth and sustainable development. A central component of their role is a new £100m Mobilisation Facility announced by the Prime Minister at the UN General Assembly in October. As the press release describes, BII launched a Call for Proposals in January to partner with investors in the City of London to source the strongest concepts into which this Facility will invest to enable commercial investment to flow at scale into developing countries.

As the Prime Minister said in October, BII expects that the Mobilisation Facility will mobilise hundreds of millions of pounds into emerging markets. The Facility is monitored through Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's (FCDO) regular governance arrangements with BII, as its sole shareholder. These arrangements require BII to report to FCDO regularly, including through a formal annual report. In addition, the performance of the facility will be monitored and measured through an annual review process that FCDO conducts on all of its programmes. This annual review will further assess the progress, effectiveness, and value for money of the facility.

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