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<p>India is making steady progress in improving infant mortality, illiteracy and malnutrition. Please refer to my written ministerial statement of 9 November 2012, Official Report, column 51WS, for more details of our planned development relationship with India after 2015. The changes in the UK's development relationship with India reflect India's rapid growth over the last decade and growing ability to finance its own development programmes. Public spending on education in India has more than doubled since 2006 (from £15 billion in 2006 to £35 billion in 2011), as has spending on health (from £7 billion in 2006 to around £15 billion in 2011). During 2011-12, India invested 25% of its budget on health, education and rural development.</p> |