Development Aid: Nutrition

(asked on 24th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of the Government's lack of financial contribution at the recent Tokyo Nutrition for Growth summit on progress in the Government meeting its commitment to ending the preventable deaths of mothers, newborn babies and children by 2030.


Answered by
Amanda Milling Portrait
Amanda Milling
Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
This question was answered on 31st January 2022

The FCDO remains committed to tackling malnutrition as a fundamental part of HMG's commitment to ending preventable deaths. Our commitment at the Nutrition for Growth Summit to integrate nutrition objectives across all relevant FCDO programmes means that nutrition will play a key role in achieving our objectives on ending preventable deaths of mothers, babies and children, women and girls, humanitarian aid and global health and we will use the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nutrition policy marker to hold ourselves to account.

The 2021 Spending Review concluded on 27 October 2021 and set departmental budgets for the next three financial years. The FCDO is currently working through an internal business planning exercise following this which will determine Official Development Assistance for nutrition programming. We are taking a number of steps to increase the impact of aid spending on nutrition and food systems, along with the promotion of nutrition objectives in other sectors.

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