Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister of State of 18 April 2018, Official Report, column 305, if she will publish her Department's policy on orphanages.

DFID does not have a written policy on support to orphanages but DFID’s general policy is not to fund orphanages. DFID’s primary focus is to tackle the underlying drivers of institutionalisation through poverty reduction programmes and through our strong focus on education, nutrition, health, economic development and social protection programming.