Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will publish the Official Development Assistance spend on (a) security sector reform, (b) conflict prevention, (c) preventing violence against women and girls in each of the Sahel region countries in each of the last five years.

In the Sahel, Official Development Assistance (ODA) for security sector reform, conflict prevention, and preventing violence against women and girls has principally been delivered through the Conflict Stability and Security Fund (CSSF). This is a cross government fund which focuses on tackling instability and preventing conflicts that threaten UK interests.

A breakdown of CSSF ODA spend across the five Sahelian countries (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger) can be found in table A4f of the 'Additional tables: Statistics on International Development Final UK Aid Spend' under 'Statistics on International Development' which are published annually here: www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-international-development. Figures for 2019 are published separately here: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-aid-spend-2019. Figures for 2020 will be published in due course on the gov.uk website here: www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-international-development.