DFID plans to spend £1.4 billion on education from 2005-08. This support helps countries to invest in teacher training and salaries, purchase text books and construct new schools and classrooms. DFID plans to further increase its support and aims to spend approximately £8.5 billion in support of education over the next ten years. This long-term commitment will provide governments with predictable funding against which they can prepare ambitious 10 year investment plans to achieve the millennium development goal (MDG) for universal primary education.More information on DFID’s work on universal primary education, including DFID’s work in specific countries, is included in the DFID departmental report 2006 which is available in the Libraries of the House.