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Developing Countries: Children

Question for Department for International Development

UIN HL4798, tabled on 19 January 2017

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the benefits of investing in early child development in the developing world.

Answered on

30 January 2017

Evidence suggests that supporting children in their early years through health, education, nutrition and responsive care improves their learning potential and yields enormous long term benefits. By 2020 the UK will improve nutrition for 50million children under 5, women of childbearing age and adolescent girls, immunise 76million children against killer diseases and support 11million children in the poorest countries to gain a decent education.