The UK is committed to promoting gender equality and protecting and empowering adolescent girls, this is essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Adolescence is a critical time when a person’s experiences, and the decisions taken by them and for them, affect the rest of their lives. In supporting and protecting adolescent girls, we are empowering the decision makers, peacebuilders and business leaders of our future. DFID’s work to protect and empower adolescent girls consists of standalone programming, integrated programmes, a range of interventions incorporated into wider education, economic empowerment and social protection programmes and work through multilateral agencies. This complexity means that we cannot currently track spend on adolescent girls. We do know, however, that DFID is providing a significant amount of support to adolescent girls through for example the Girls’ Education Challenge (£500m), £225m per year to universal Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), £39m to end child marriage, £50m to eradicate Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), and £9m for the ‘Support to Adolescent Girls Empowerment’ Programme in Sierra Leone.