Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to row 12 of the table on page 39 of his Department's publication 2018-19 Main Estimate Memorandum, if he will publish a description of spending under the heading International Climate Finance.

BEIS annual accounts https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-annual-report-and-accounts-2017-to-2018 , include a section on the department’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) expenditure including International Climate Finance spend.

In addition, BEIS International Climate Finance spend forms part of the Government’s annual ODA statistics at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-aid-spend-2017 . and is elaborated in reporting to both the EU and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/gb/eu/mmr/art16_finance/envw6tyfq/Final_2018_UK_MMR_climate_finance_report.xlsx/manage_document . BEIS individual programme documents such as business cases are published on the Development Tracker website at https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/department/BEIS .