Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the planned outcomes are from increased public investment in the UK global education fund.

The UK Government is leading the way in providing quality education for children around the world. On 2 February the International Development Secretary attended the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) replenishment conference in Dakar, where she announced that the UK would contribute £225m to the next phase of GPE.

This means that our annual contribution to the GPE will increase by almost 50% to £75m per year. The funding will be used to keep 880,000 children in school each year for three years - over half of whom will be in fragile or conflict affected states; train 170,000 teachers; build 2400 new classrooms; and distribute more than 20 million new textbooks. We will continue to drive improvements to GPE delivery and 30% of our funding will be conditional on results.