Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have received humanitarian and social protection support from her Department in each of the last 10 years.

The way in which we estimate beneficiary numbers has changed during the period in question. Between 2011 and 2016 FCDO (DFID at the time) reached 8.94 million people with cash transfers, against a target of at least six million people reached for social protection. From 2015 and March 2020 FCDO (DFID at the time) reached 33.7 million individuals with humanitarian assistance (food aid, cash and voucher transfers). Many of these individuals are likely to have received assistance in more than one year. Results have not been collected for this instance since March 2020.