Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience Grant.

The Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience (SHEAR) programme ended in 2021. The programme's final review concluded that the programme exceeded expectations, having developed new and improved climate science and strengthened the evidence base in relation to emergency responses. The programme improved disaster resilience and humanitarian responses by advancing the monitoring, assessment and prediction of natural hazards and risks across 18 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Learning from SHEAR continues to be applied in our responses and planning for hazards including our emergency response to Tropical Cyclone Freddy in early 2023.