Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what plans she has to (a) conduct and (b) publish impact assessments for changes to levels of UK funding for (a) global health, (b) climate heating response and (c) conflict prevention and resolution in the forthcoming International Development Strategy.

The FCDO conducts impact assessments as part of the annual business and country planning process, with reference to the UK's Public Sector Equality Duty (under the Equality Act 2010) and International Development (Gender Equality) Act 2014. Official Development Assistance allocations, as part of the wider business and country planning process, will be strategically aligned with our future development direction as set out in the forthcoming International Development Strategy.

In line with practice across Government, the FCDO will not formally publish these impact assessments. As the Foreign Secretary has set out to Parliament, if we were to publish all impact assessments, it would discourage the candour of advice officials prepared. As we move through the project cycle, we will also continue to review the actual impact of our spending.