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Developing Countries: Education

Question for Department for International Development

UIN 66941, tabled on 7 March 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that girls in the poorest countries can access education.

Answered on

14 March 2017

Between 2011 and 2015, UKAID supported over five million girls in developing countries to gain an education. By the end of 2017, the flagship Girls’ Education Challenge will enable up to one million marginalised girls to benefit from an education of sufficient quality to help transform their lives.