Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 23 February 2022 to Question 125398, what plans her Department has to resume the estimation of beneficiary numbers of humanitarian and social protection.

The estimation of beneficiary numbers for FCDO's humanitarian and social protection support will be conducted later this year (summer 2022) as one of the performance metrics in the forthcoming FCDO Outcome Delivery Plan covering 2022-2025. This will be covered by the KPI "Number of people reached through humanitarian and social protection support (food, cash and vouchers)" and will provide an estimate of the number of people reached by the FCDO between April 2021 and March 2022 with either humanitarian or social protection assistance.