Developing Countries: Health Services and Nutrition

(asked on 3rd September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will maintain existing levels of funding for (a) child, new-born and maternal health interventions and (b) nutrition programmes.


Answered by
Wendy Morton Portrait
Wendy Morton
This question was answered on 14th September 2020

The UK Government remains committed to supporting child,?newborn?and maternal health and nutrition interventions as part of our manifesto commitment to end preventable deaths of mothers,?newborns?and children by 2030.

The UK has pledged £1.65 billion to support Gavi's goal to immunise a further 300 million children and save up to 8 million lives. The UK has also committed to spending at least £225 million per year on family planning until 2022. Between April 2018 and March 2019 alone, at least 23.5 million women and girls were reached through UK?funding.

Last?week, we announced package of £119 million UK Aid to address COVID-19 and famine, which includes a new partnership with UNICEF to address acute malnutrition more effectively and efficiently. We are also continuing planned support for a number of existing nutrition initiatives, including the Power of Nutrition financing facility, the Access to Nutrition Index and the Scaling Up Nutrition movement. Decisions on future spend will be informed by the outcomes of the Integrated Review and the Spending Review.

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