Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' budget is spent on (1) family planning, (2) sexual and reproductive health and rights, and (3) population issues, in the developing world.

Responsibility for spending on family planning, sexual and reproductive health and rights and population issues in the developing world is outside of Defra’s remit. Defra has no projects that cover these topics and it is highly unlikely that any proportion of the budget is spent on them. Checking every transaction in a financial year would provide a definitive response but this could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.