Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much and what proportion of the Official Development Assistance is spent on tackling plastic pollution.

The Department for International Development currently has £39m of programming as part of an overall package of over £66m of UK Official Development Assistance aimed at tackling plastic pollution. In addition, the UK contributes to multilateral institutions including £250m to the Global Environment Facility and the multilateral development banks, part of which is used to tackle waste and plastic pollution. We do not track the proportion of the overall aid budget that is spent on tackling plastic pollution.