UK Cuts to Global Education

Britain helped found the Global Partnership for Education and was once its largest donor. Today we have cut our annual support to GPE by 77% from £86m to just £20m. As Chair of the APPG for Global Education, I’m deeply saddened and angry.

Earlier this year, I saw in Malawi what British support delivers: teachers trained, children learning to read and count who otherwise never would. That progress is now at risk. Every pound cut is a child left without a classroom.

Ministers promised aid cuts would be offset through multilateral funding like GPE. This pledge breaks that promise. Fewer children learning means slower growth, more instability, wider inequality – that serves no one. The Government must reconsider.