Mark Durkan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Durkan on 2015-11-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to improve nutrition for women and children in lower middle income countries.

Grant Shapps

The UK Government has made a commitment to improve the nutrition of 50 million people by 2020, including in lower middle income countries. Those being helped includes children under five, breast feeding women, women of childbearing age and adolescent girls. This commitment builds on our previous 2010 commitment to reach 20 million children under five and pregnant and breast feeding women with nutrition programmes by 2015. By mid 2015 we had reached 28.6 million people.

Further details can be found on Development Tracker: http://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/

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