Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the effect of the reduction of Official Development Assistance on spending on support for people with disabilities.

We treat equalities issues seriously, and have processes in place through Spending Reviews and FCDO business planning to ensure we meet our legal obligations.    As is routine, when developing advice for Ministers on 2021-22 spending, officials prepared an overarching Equalities Assessment which considered any impacts on women and girls, the most marginalised and vulnerable, people with disabilities, and people from other protected groups.