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 Private Enterprise Programme in Zambia Grant.

FCDO development programmes are managed in accordance with FCDO's Programme Operating Framework. Annual Reviews for FCDO programmes are carried out by FCDO staff and published on the DevTracker website. For the year 2020-2021 the Private Enterprise Programme in Zambia Phase II scored an 'A+' which means that its performance moderately exceeded expectations. The 2021-2022 Annual Review is also available on DevTracker and the 2022-2023 review will be published in due course.