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 changes to her Department's spending allocations relating to trachoma on (a) the number of people at risk of avoidable blindness in Ethiopia and (b) gender inequalities in healthcare in Ethiopia.

We support the Ethiopian healthcare system through our Sustaining and Accelerating Primary Health in Ethiopia programme. This supports medicine procurement, training of healthcare workers, and healthcare infrastructure. It also provides technical assistance, including to promote greater equity in the healthcare system. The full results of the including comparisons to original targets prior to the programme closure, will be published on the government development tracker (https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk) by March 2022.