Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendation to use international meetings and events including the UN High Level Political Forum to press other governments and international organisations to take action on intersecting inequalities in education in the Send My Friend to School report, Unlock education for everyone: delivering the pledge to leave no one behind in education published on 11 February 2019.

DFID’s 2018 education policy ‘Get Children Learning’ commits the UK to tackling multiple sources of disadvantage simultaneously in our contribution to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4. Building on the advances made at previous international events such as the UK-hosted Global Disability Summit in 2018, we will continue to press other governments and international organisations to address intersecting inequalities to ensure marginalised children can access the quality education they deserve. We will do this through UK representation throughout the United Nations High-Level Political Forum, including at side events, making links to the Leave No One Behind agenda and SDG 4, which is one of the SDGs in focus this year.