Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2024 to Question 8417 on Bilateral Aid: Gender Based Violence, how much bilateral aid spending (a) his Department and (b) the predecessor Department has used to tackle violence against women and girls in each year since 2010.

Ending violence against women and girls overseas remains a top priority for FCDO. Please find a summary of bilateral spend in (a) Foreign, Commonwealth and Development and (b) Department for International Development (DFID) from 2016 - 2022. The sector code '15180', which is used to track spend on ending violence against women and girls, was first created in 2016 with governments only able to report against it since then. The figures presented are likely to be an underestimation as some humanitarian and other sectoral programmes also work to prevent and respond to violence, but are not captured.

Source: [https://www.gov.uk/guidance/statistics-on-international-development]