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Developing Countries: Religion

Question for Department for International Development

UIN 226110, tabled on 26 February 2019

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to collect data on marginalised religious or belief groups in countries in which her Department operates in a way which does not put those groups at risk.

Answered on

4 March 2019

Through UK Aid Connect, DFID will provide funding to a consortium led by the Institute of Development Studies to collect data on marginalised religious or belief groups in a way which does not put those groups at risk. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is supporting a project to explore models for better data on Freedom of Religion or Belief through the Magna Carta Fund.