Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much was paid from the public purse to Marie Stopes International in 2016; and how much of that total came from the international aid budget for expenditure overseas in 2016.

During January to December 2016, Marie Stopes International (MSI) directly received £44.45 million from DFID through several programmes including: Urban Health for poor mothers in Bangladesh, Reducing Maternal Death Kenya, Family Planning Services Malawi, Reproductive Health Services Pakistan and Improving Reproductive and Maternal and New born health Sierra Leone.