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 increasing the number of people benefiting from gender-based violence prevention or response services through her Department's support has been achieved; and what the number of people benefiting from gender-based violence prevention or response services were in that year.

The new FCDO metric on gender-based violence shows the UK's ambition in tackling this violence globally. This is a new metric and work is now underway to identify the most accurate way to measure beneficiary numbers and set a baseline against which we can report future data.