To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the UK's contribution to the performance of the UN's Millenium Development Goals.
Answered on
9 July 2015
The MDGs have been an enormous success, helping to focus global attention on poverty and resulting in, for example, extreme poverty being halved, maternal deaths falling by 45% and the under-five deaths dropping from 12m a year to 6m a year.
The UK has made a significant contribution to these successes. For example, the UK has supported over 43 million people to access water, sanitation or hygiene interventions; and over 19 million children under 5 and pregnant women to access nutrition programmes. The UK’s binding commitment to 0.7% of GNI for official development assistance is solid evidence of the UK’s leadership on international development.
The UK continues to make a strong contribution to the ongoing negotiations in the United Nations to agree the post-2015 Development Agenda in advance of the post-2015 summit in September of this year, building on the Prime Minister’s co-chairing of the High Level Panel. The UK will play its full part in delivering the post-2015 agenda when it is launched in January 2016.