Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what funding his Department has provided for (a) sexual and reproductive health and rights, (b) maternal care and (c) other programmes for women's health in Pakistan in the 2022-23 financial year.

The UK has a long history of financial and technical support to the health sector in Pakistan. Bilateral programmes have focussed on health system strengthening, reproductive health, maternal and child health and nutrition. Since 2012, UK Aid in Pakistan has reached over 9.7 million family planning users and prevented 8,809 maternal deaths, over 8.08 million unwanted pregnancies and 1.89 million unsafe abortions. Currently our family planning programme has pivoted to flood support, providing primary health care to affected communities especially vulnerable women and children. Future Aid prioritisation decisions will be guided by the new UK International Development Strategy to ensure we continue to support women and girls, address increasing global challenges, deliver investment, get humanitarian assistance to those who need it most and continue our work on climate change, nature, and global health.