Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that nutrition is considered in all of his Department’s spending programmes.

The Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) continues to consider how to integrate nutrition objectives across international development policies and spending programmes. This includes application of the The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Nutrition Policy Marker and the provision of advice and assistance to colleagues across FCDO's network to strengthen our capability to integrate nutrition in our Official Development Assistance programmes. Progress is assessed by independent experts and is published in FCDO's annual Nutrition Accountability Report. FCDO will publish the next iteration of the report around June 2025.

At the Nutrition for Growth Summit in Paris in March 2025 the Minister for International Development launched the Global Compact on Nutrition Integration. Partners have welcomed the Compact as a new initiative to drive change, and a positive signal of the UK's continued leadership on development.