Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when his Department will implement its Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) budget commitments to reinstate ODA funding for humanitarian response and gender equality to levels seen prior to the 2020 cut to UK international aid.

The UK Government remains committed to delivering the priorities set out in the International Development Strategy (IDS); and the Strategy's spend targets where funding allows. In 2024-2025 we plan to spend £1 billion on urgent humanitarian needs. We continue to work towards the IDS target on restoring funding for vital work on Women and Girls and the new target set out in the FCDO's International Women and Girls Strategy 2023-2030 for at least 80 percent of the FCDO's bilateral aid programmes to have a focus on gender equality by 2030.