Stephen Timms – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2016-05-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effect of UK development aid on increasing primary school attendance in Bangladesh since 2000.

Mr Desmond Swayne

The UK has supported significant improvements in primary school attendance through its contribution to the primary education sector programme and projects working with NGOs and civil society.

Overall primary school attendance increased in Bangladesh from 84% to 97% between 2010 and 2015.

Since 2010, DFID has supported 820,000 children (including 456, 000 girls) in primary education, of which 462,000 (261,000 girls) completed primary education.