Education: Females

(asked on 16th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the change in ODA budget allocation to girls education in 2021-22 compared to that change in (a) 2020-2021 and (b) 2019-2020.


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Wendy Morton Portrait
Wendy Morton
This question was answered on 21st July 2021

The FCDO will spend £400 million of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) on girls' education in 2020. We are not a position to draw or comment on comparisons to previous years at this stage. ODA is reported on a calendar year basis, and includes sectoral breakdowns, such as education. The Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office's (FCDO) National Statistics publication, 'Statistics on International Development,' includes this information. Provisional ODA spend for 2020 is available, with sectoral breakdowns due to be published in the autumn. The UK's ODA spend for 2021, including an activity level dataset, will be published in 2021.

The FCDO publishes regular open data through the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). This operational data covers current live programmes, and will include 2021 spend once business planning is concluded. The raw data can be accessed at IATI Registry, and is shown on the Development Tracker website: https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/

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