Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the UN Commission on the Status of Women's decision to (a) change its climate change commitments from the declaration and (b) remove sexual and reproductive health rights from the declaration on levels of international support for women and girls.

Member states successfully adopted a consensus Political Declaration at the 69th UN Commission on the Status of Women. In our assessment, new language on the right of all women and girls to enjoy the highest standard of physical and mental health, including maternal and neonatal health, menstrual health and hygiene management, shows progress made. The text on climate change remains unchanged from the 2020 Political Declaration. Our focus is now on embedding women and girls in all our work, including defending and promoting universal and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights as a fundamental element of gender equality, global health, democracy and economic development.