Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of official development assistance was allocated to sexual and reproductive health and rights issues in (1) 2020, and (2) 2021.
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) funding disbursed through bilateral and multilateral funding and total funding for 2020 and 2021 are stated in the table below. This is based on OECD DAC credit report system data, SRHR spend methodology laid out in the 'Donors Delivering for SRHR' 2023 report and the latest OECD DAC exchange rates, and the data was adjusted for inflation using 2020 constant price. Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) can only be spent via multilateral or bilateral funding mechanisms.
Total SRHR | Core Multilateral SRHR | Bilateral SRHR | Yearly SRHR disbursement as % of total ODA | |
2020 | £645.34m | £311.52m | £333.82m | 4.89% |
2021 | £469.25m | £263.18m | £206.07m | 4.54% |