The UK funds three programmes in Bangladesh with elements of social protection that improve nutritional outcomes. These programmes target households including women and children, and total expenditure over the last four financial years was:<Table width="100%" summary="" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" border="0"><TR><TD></TD><TD></TD><TD>£ million</TD></TR><TR><TD>(i)</TD><TD>2008-09</TD><TD>33.5</TD></TR><TR><TD>(ii)</TD><TD>2009-10</TD><TD>31.4</TD></TR><TR><TD>(iii)</TD><TD>2010-11</TD><TD>44.7</TD></TR><TR><TD>(iv)</TD><TD>2011-12</TD><TD>¹34.5</TD></TR><tfoot><TR><td>¹ Estimate</td></TR></tfoot></Table>These programmes improved the nutritional status of mothers and reduced acute malnutrition, stunting and anaemia in under fives. A new programme will give direct nutrition support to over half a million extreme poor women, children and adolescent girls.