Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what percentage of Official Development Assistance is spent on programmes with a (a) significant focus on gender equality measured as Gender Equality Marker 1 and (b) principal focus on gender equality measured as Gender Equality Marker 2 in financial year 2022-23.

We do not have this official data for financial year 2022-23, due to the reporting times on Official Development Assistance statistics to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC). The latest data, for 2021, sourced from the Statistics for International Development and OECD DAC Creditor Reporting System, indicates that 49 percent of FCDO bilateral programmes were marked with the Significant (1) OECD DAC Gender Policy Marker, and 10 percent were marked as Principal (2).