Oral Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
“If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 26 November 2025Answered: 2 December 2025
Asked by
Dr Beccy Cooper
Labour — Worthing West
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
Answer from Hansard
Seema Malhotra
I would be very happy to meet my hon. Friend. The UK will continue to centre women and girls in everything that we do internationally, from our diplomacy to our development work. We will mainstream gender across the Department’s work to ensure that we deliver maximum impact. We are retaining our ODA target for gender equality, and we will share an update on further measures to strengthen our approach to mainstreaming in due course.