Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Spending Review 2021: Priority outcomes and metrics, what the baseline year is used to determine whether the goal of lowering mortality rates of mothers, newborns and children in priority countries has been achieved; and what the relevant mortality rates in those priority countries were in that year.

2020 is the baseline year that will be used to determine whether the goal of lowering the mortality rates of mothers, newborns and children has been achieved.

The global and national mortality rates for newborns and children are published by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation at https://childmortality.org/data. Maternal mortality estimates are published by the WHO at https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/maternal-mortality-2000-2017/en/.