Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of UK aid had gender equality as a (a) significant and (b) principal objective in 2020.

Tackling gender inequality and standing up for the rights of women and girls around the world is a core part of the UK Government's mission. This was reinforced in the Integrated Review.

FCDO's Overseas Development Aid spend, including data against the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) gender policy marker, is made publicly available through the OECD statistics portal. The latest figures available (2019) show that approximately 68% of the former Department for International Development (DFID) and the former Foreign & Commonwealth Office's (FCO) total bilateral spend was marked principal or significant and equates to £5.2 billion. OECD are due to publish 2020 figures shortly.