Asked by: Giles Watling (Conservative - Clacton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress her Department has made on improving girls’ access to education throughout the world.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
The UK is a global leader on girls’ education and DFID spearheads the UK Governments global campaign, Leave No Girl Behind, which promotes 12 years of quality education and learning for all girls.
Between 2015 and 2018, UKAid provided by DFID has supported 5.6 million girls to gain a decent education.
Through our investment in this area, we are supporting the most marginalised girls to attend school, learn whilst they are there, and help ensure the critical transition from primary to secondary education.
The UK is also leading by example, building evidence of what works in DFID’s flagship Girls’ Education Challenge. Our largest single programme anywhere, reaching 18 countries and up to 1.5 million girls. In the coming months it will reach 250,000 highly marginalised girls who have never attended or dropped out of school due to poverty, motherhood, disability or conflict.
Asked by: Giles Watling (Conservative - Clacton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to promote trade for development.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The Department for International Development is working with the Department for International Trade to ensure our trade policy benefits developing countries as well as the UK. We aim to deliver continuity in our trading arrangements with developing countries as we leave the EU, provide support to help countries trade, and explore options to expand our relationships in the future.
Asked by: Giles Watling (Conservative - Clacton)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is she taking to enable women and children to access education in developing countries.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
DFID’s new Education Policy, Get Children Learning, sets out how we will reach the most marginalised children, including the hardest to reach girls, children with disabilities and children caught up in emergencies and conflict. DFID does this through significant investments both bilaterally and multilaterally. In 2016 the UK spent £964 million bilaterally on education, whilst remaining the largest bilateral donor to the Education Cannot Wait and Global Partnership for Education programmes. In addition, the UK is a global leader on girls’ education, with our Girls’ Education Challenge programme helping a million marginalised girls access a quality education since 2012.