Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding is currently allocated by her Department to projects aimed at achieving Sustainable Development Goal 14.

The Department supports activities aimed at achieving Sustainable Development Goal 14 through our funding to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF). For example FAO hosts the International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter, and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. The GEF has funded marine protected areas across the world that are more than twice the size of Alaska.

The UK’s core support to FAO in Financial Year 2016-17 was £17,681,203. DFID’s contribution to the Global Environment Facility in Financial Year 2016017 was £52,500,000. Neither FAO nor the GEF publish a breakdown of spending specifically on SDG14.