Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to improve education in Commonwealth countries.

We support education directly in 22 countries, of which 13 are Commonwealth countries. We are also a major funder of the Global Partnership for Education, which supports education in 60 countries of which 17 are Commonwealth. Globally, including support to Commonwealth countries, we have supported 10.2 million children in primary and lower-secondary school and have helped to train 123,000 teachers to improve the quality of learning since 2010.