Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much his Department spent from the public purse on preventing the trafficking of adolescent girls in humanitarian crises in (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18 and (c) 2018-19.
Since 2017 the Government has more than doubled UK aid spending to tackle modern slavery and human trafficking – committing just over £200 million to date. This includes work to prevent the trafficking of adolescent girls.
We do not have figures specifically for humanitarian crises. However, examples of our current work to protect vulnerable children in protracted crises include:
Full details of this work can be found at https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk.