Pakistan: Education

(asked on 9th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has allocated to each educational project in Pakistan in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Harriett Baldwin Portrait
Harriett Baldwin
This question was answered on 16th April 2019

Since 2011, DFID has benefited 10 million primary and nearly 6 million secondary students in Pakistan. This support is mainly focussed on schools in the Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh with our two largest sector reform programmes operating in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab. In the last 3 years DFID Pakistan has spent the following on each education project:

Project

2016/2017

2017/2018

2018/2019

Total

202328 - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Sector Programme

£36.4m

£34.2m

£28.9m

£99.5m

202491 - Transforming Education in Pakistan

£3m

£3m

£2m

£8m

202697 - Punjab Education Support Programme II

£68.4

£64.1m

£41.6m

£174.1m

204277 - Ilm Ideas Education Innovation Programme II

£3.3m

£5.5m

£8.3

£17.1m

300238 - Sindh Education Non-State Actors (SENSA)

£3.1m

£3.6m

£1.8m

£8.5m

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