Under the UK's COP Presidency 95% of the largest developed country climate finance providers made new, forward-looking climate finance commitments. The $100 billion Delivery Plan projects that the $100 billion finance goal will be met by developed countries by 2023 at the latest, with over $500 billion mobilised over the 5-year period 2021-25. In addition, at COP26 there was significant progress on adaptation finance, with collective agreement to at least double finance for adaptation on 2019 levels by 2025. We are encouraging all climate finance providers to bring forward their Progress Update to the $100 billion Delivery Plan for COP27.

The allegations that surfaced around Oxfam in the DRC are serious. It is right that is given careful consideration. The FCDO will make a decision shortly regarding whether to allow Oxfam to bid for HMG funding.

The UK Government is monitoring developments in global and, where possible, vulnerable regional and national, fertiliser markets, including current supply shortages and high prices of nitrogenous and other fertilisers. Challenges related to supply and prices have contributed to high global food prices this year and were further exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. While 2022 has been a year of increased food access challenges, high fertiliser costs and supply constraints could impact on yields in the coming year and affect global food availability in 2023.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is a long-standing and strategic partner of the UK. We welcome the Bank's target to provide 40% of its finance for climate change, and at least 50% of this for adaptation. We are currently the largest donor to the African Development Fund, which provides such finance to the poorest countries across the Continent. At COP26 we announced our Room to Run Guarantee that will allow the Bank to provide up to US$2 billion of additional financing for climate change over the next four years, to countries such as Egypt and South Africa.

Remittances are part of a complex global network of financial flows. With our partners FCDO is working to reduce the cost of remittances to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals. For example in 2019, the UK government owned organisation FSD (Financial Sector Deepening) Africa made a catalytic investment in MFS Africa, Africa's largest mobile money hub, which reduced the average cost of remittances in 33 African countries from 6% in 2018 to 4.25% in 2021.

With respect to UK remittances that flow internationally, FCDO does not collect or report this data globally. The best proxy is the World Bank Group's remittance data which is published annually and available online https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/migrationremittancesdiasporaissues/brief/migration-remittances-data and captures flows through formal banking systems.

Climate change is an increasingly significant factor in driving migration and displacement. However, decisions to migrate are rarely mono-causal; climate change interacts with and can exacerbate other drivers of migration. On that basis we do not use a single fixed definition of climate-related migration or displacement. The UK Government makes use of data from a range of sources to understand the relationship between climate change and migration. This has included commissioning a 'Rapid evidence assessment on the impacts of climate change on migration patterns', which has been made publicly available at https://www.gov.uk/research-for-development-outputs/rapid-evidence-assessment-on-the-impacts-of-climate-change-on-migration-patterns

The UK is a global leader in research on tackling malaria and other global diseases, with wide-ranging expertise across the UK academic, public and private sectors. For example, the world's first World Health Organisation approved malaria vaccine was developed by a British company, GlaxoSmithKline, and the new R21 malaria vaccine has been developed by Oxford University's Jenner Institute.

The Government continues to support the deployment of UK expertise though further investments in research and development. This includes the University of Oxford and the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit's trial on a new combination therapy for drug-resistant malaria, and the Innovative Vector Control Consortium, established by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, including their novel class of bed-nets which kill mosquitoes resistant to traditional insecticides.

The UK also provides support to multilateral institutions such as GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria to deliver life-saving interventions to disease-endemic countries.

The Global Fund is a high performing organisation that has saved 50 million lives to date. The UK is the organisation's third largest donor historically, investing £4.4 billion since 2002. The Global Fund responded quickly and effectively to the COVID-19 pandemic by establishing the COVID-19 Response Mechanism. This mechanism has raised over $4.3 billion to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on programs to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, and work with national response plans to support urgent improvements in health and community systems. The UK allocated an additional £60 million to the mechanism this year to support diagnostic and oxygen supplies. As an active member of the Global Fund Board that plays a key role in assessing the Global Fund's effectiveness, the UK will continue to support the Global Fund to define its evolving role in Pandemic Preparedness and Response within its new 2023-2028 strategy.

The UK is known world-wide for the emphasis we put on ensuing maximum value for money and return on investment for the Official Development Assistance we invest. The Global Fund is frequently assessed by the UK and others as providing excellent value for money, delivering health best buys and ensuring that interventions reach the most vulnerable. Further information outlining the return on investment for the Global Fund is available at https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/fight-for-what-counts/ The UK's multilateral and bilateral programmes are complementary. The UK's approach to bilateral programmes and the benefits this offers the UK and partner countries is set out in the International Development Strategy at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-governments-strategy-for-international-development

Information about spending to tackle global malnutrition in 2021 and 2022 will be made available through Statistics for International Development (SIDS) in Autumn 2022 and Autumn 2023 (respectively). We will continue to publish our spend information by project on DevTracker as always (updated monthly).  The FCDO has disbursed over £5 billion of Official Development Assistance for nutrition between 2013 and 2020 and spent £530.2 million on nutrition specific programmes, just missing our 2020 target of £574.8 million. We are now focused on achieving our 2021 Nutrition for Growth commitment to spend £1.5 billion by 2030.

At COP26, the UK announced the £65 million Just Rural Transition Support Programme to support developing countries design and implement approaches that help farmers build resilience and drive investment into more sustainable methods of agriculture. This builds on £9 million of current UK Government support to the Just Rural Transition which is helping countries to take initial steps to implement sustainable land use policies and practices. This is also a priority domestically. Following our exit from the European Union, England has begun a programme of ambitious agriculture reform. This new policy will, over a gradual transition period, phase out the area-based EU style subsidies and instead introduce a package of voluntary grants and continuous payments which reward farmers for environmental outcomes, increase productivity and support investment in technology.

It is clear that global food and agriculture systems are central drivers of climate change, contributing up to 33% of global Greenhouse Gas Emissions and are the leading driver of biodiversity loss. Through the COP26 campaign on Accelerating Transition to Sustainable Agriculture, the UK COP Presidency raised visibility and mobilised action for transformation in agriculture, land use and food systems, essential to ensure sustainable food production for a growing population whilst building resilience for farmers and a just transition to reduce emissions and reversing harmful impacts on biodiversity.

Under the UK's COP Presidency 95% of the largest developed country climate finance providers made new, forward-looking climate finance commitments. The $100 billion Delivery Plan projects that the $100 billion finance goal will be met by developed countries by 2023 at the latest, with over $500 billion mobilised over the 5-year period 2021-25. In addition, at COP26 there was significant progress on adaptation finance, with collective agreement to at least double finance for adaptation on 2019 levels by 2025. We are encouraging all climate finance providers to bring forward their Progress Update to the $100 billion Delivery Plan for COP27.

The pause on some aid payments, in place since July 2022, is a temporary measure ahead of decisions about aid prioritisation. Impact assessments are ongoing.

Impact assessments will not be published, due to the need to protect the space for officials to provide frank advice to ministers.

Details of all UK Government Official Development Assistance funding mechanisms including channel of delivery, bilateral multilateral breakdown, type of aid, and type of finance is listed by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committe (DAC) sector code in the "Statistics on International Development (SID): final UK aid spend 2020 - Data underlying the SID publication" annex table here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-aid-spend-2020

Please refer to the "Donor Delivering for Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR)" report SRHR spend methodology for the most relevant OECD DAC sector code here: https://donorsdelivering.report/

The UK is proud to be a co-founding member and leading donor to Education Cannot Wait (ECW). Given the UK Government's response to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, wider Official Development Assistance (ODA) pressures including the ODA-eligible expenditure incurred through the Afghan resettlement programme and the UK's support to people fleeing Ukraine, the FCDO and other ODA spending departments will need to revisit aid budgets to ensure all eligible spending is managed within 0.5% of Gross National Income this calendar year.

The Government remains committed to transparency and will provide an update to Parliament on spending plans in due course.

The UK continues to monitor the impact that COVID-19 has had on efforts against malaria, with last year's World Malaria Report recording the first significant increase in malaria deaths in over two decades - up by 69,000 - and a 14 million increase in the number of malaria cases. The majority of our malaria investments are through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The UK continues to be a strong supporter of the Global Fund, having donated over £4.4 billion to date, and we will be announcing our support to the seventh replenishment in the coming weeks. In addition to this we will continue to invest in research to develop new tools to prevent, diagnose and treat malaria and in bilateral programmes to support malaria endemic countries to strengthen their health systems.

At the seventh replenishment pledging conference the UK committed to remain a strong supporter of the Global Fund. We look forward to announcing the UK's pledge to the Global Fund's seventh replenishment in the coming weeks.

The Global Fund's new strategy places a high priority on women and girls; 60 percent of the Global Fund's spending is specifically targeted on programmes for women and girls and about one-third of Global Fund investments directly benefits Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). Our investments in the Global Fund have been critical for delivering our manifesto commitment to end the preventable deaths of mothers, babies and children by 2030, with malaria predominantly killing pregnant women and children under five and women with HIV having some of the highest maternal death rates.

The Global Fund takes a country-led approach, consistent with the approach to patient development set out in the International Development Strategy. They are the main multilateral grant funder of health systems investing $1 billion annually, strategically aligned with our Health Systems Strengthening position paper. Their new strategy sets out an ambitious role in continuing the organisation's support and strengthening health systems and in pandemic preparedness.