Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what proportion of his Department's international climate finance was gender marked using the OECD gender equality policy marker in the last two years for which information is available.

In the financial year 2020/21, 57 percent of FCDO programmes spending International Climate Finance were marked with the Significant (1) OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Gender Policy Marker and 2 percent were marked as Principal (2). In financial year 2021/22, 61 percent were marked with the Significant (1) OECD DAC Gender Policy Marker and 1 percent as Principal (2).