Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how much bilateral aid spending went on (a) women’s equality organisations and (b) violence against woman and girls programmes in the last financial year.

The International Women and Girls Strategy commits the FCDO to increase our support for grassroots women's organisations and movements. Official data, sourced from the OECD DAC Creditor Reporting System, indicates that in 2022, £27.6 million of UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) supported women's equality organisations and institutions. This could be an underestimation as other sectoral programmes may also provide support to women's equality organisations but are not captured in these figures.

Ending violence against women and girls overseas remains a top priority for the Government. In 2022, £75.1 million of UK bilateral ODA was spent on tackling violence against women and girls. This is likely to be an underestimation as some humanitarian and other sectoral programmes also work to prevent and respond to violence, but are not captured in these figures. Data for multilateral ODA spend in 2022, and for bilateral spend in 2023, will be published in due course.