Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2020 Question 139097 on Developing Countries: Nutrition, on what dates roundtables with Civil Society Organisations (a) are planned and (b) were held; which organisations were (i) in attendance and (ii) invited to those roundtables; and what the agenda for discussion was for each roundtable.

FCDO officials regularly hold roundtables with Civil Society Organisation networks that have an interest in nutrition. In the last 12 months, officials met with members of the International Coalition for Advocacy on Nutrition eleven times and with members of the Action for Global Health network five times. Both networks also met with FCDO Ministers once over that period. Our next meeting with ICAN is planned for 24 February. Invitations to meetings are extended to all members of the respective networks with members themselves agreeing which representatives will meet with the FCDO. The Action for Global Health network ensures at least one attendee represents the nutrition agenda.

The timing and agendas for these meetings are agreed in discussion between FCDO officials and the respective networks. Topics have included the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit; the World Bank Spring meetings; the Independent Commission for Aid Impact review of the UK's work on nutrition; COVID-19 and the impact on nutrition; UK plans to support ending preventable deaths of mothers newborns and children; and the role of the UK's Special Envoy on Famine.