Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress the Government has made in delivering the Every girl goes to school, stays safe, and learns: Five years of global action 2021 to 2026 plan.

In 2021, we co-hosted the Global Education Summit with Kenya which raised an unprecedented $4 billion for the Global Partnership for Education and used our G7 leadership to obtain endorsement for the two global objectives to get 40 million more girls into school and 20 million more girls reading by age ten by 2026. Through our COP Presidency we highlighted the importance of girls' education for responding to the climate crisis. We are working with likeminded partners to build a global coalition on foundational learning for all and to ensure strong outcomes from the Transforming Education Summit in September.

We are delivering on our commitments at country level including new programmes announced over the past year in Rwanda, Jordan, Tanzania and Bangladesh. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is preparing ambitious new education programmes focused on scaling up evidence-based approaches to improve learning outcomes.