<p>Advancing gender equality and women's and girls' rights is a core part of this Government's mission and we remain steadfast in our commitment to this agenda. The UK's Gender Equality Act 2014, legally requires all overseas development funding to meaningfully consider the impact of how it will contribute to reducing gender inequality.</p><p>The portfolio agreed by the Foreign Secretary will focus our investment and expertise on issues where the UK can make the most difference and achieve maximum strategic coherence, impact, and value for money. The FCDO will now work through what this means for individual programmes, so we cannot provide future figures. The proportion of UK aid spend in all areas of our work changes year on year, including on gender equality. The FCDO's ODA spend, including data against the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) gender policy marker, is made publicly available through the OECD statistics portal. The latest figures available (2019) show that approximately <strong>68% </strong>of the former Department for International Development (DFID) and the former Foreign & Commonwealth Office's (FCO) total bilateral spend was marked principal or significant and equates to <strong>£5.2 billion</strong>.</p>