Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2021 to Question 145834, which Ministers in his Department met with (a) the International Coalition for Advocacy on Nutrition and (b) members of the Action for Global Health network; and what the agenda items were for those meetings.

I met with 4 representatives from the International Coalition for Advocacy on Nutrition (ICAN) on 4th May 2020. The topics covered were:

• COVID-19 and nutrition;
• ICAN's recommendations to the UK government as set out in their paper 'Nutrition: The key to unlocking UK Aid's Impact';
• The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes;
• Plans for the Nutrition for Growth Summit; and
• The UK government's commitment to Ending Preventable Deaths.

I met with the CEOs from the Action for Global Health Network on 24th June 2020 to discuss the UK's response to COVID-19 and the indirect impacts of COVID-19 on health essential services. The meeting also covered ODA prioritisation and the DFID-FCO merger.