Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made on the development of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) National Action Plan's (1) Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning programme, and (2) tracking of WPS spend; and what is the deadline for its completion.

The UK is currently developing its fifth Women, Peace and Security (WPS) National Action Plan (NAP), 2023-27 which will be finalised by the end of 2022.

The NAP will set out how we will put women and girls at the centre of our work on conflict and security. It will include a monitoring and evaluation framework that enables us to better understand the impact of UK Official Development Assistance and our foreign policy and diplomacy in fragile and conflict affected contexts.

HMG does not have a dedicated budget to support the NAP. However, multiple cross government funds support Women Peace and Security objectives. Additionally, from April 2022 all Conflict, Stability and Security Fun (CSSF) projects will be assessed using a new Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Marker.

In 2020 (the latest available year for ODA reporting), 6% of ODA funded CSSF programmes (£36 m) had gender as a main objective, while 65% (£348m) of programmes had a significant gender component.