To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what additional funding he has allocated to the Department for International Development’s Global Schools Partnership programme for the 2006-07 financial year. (115213)

In April 2006 the Secretary of State for International Development announced that funding to DFID’s Global School Partnership programme would more than double to £7.5 million over the next three years. The Department for International Development allocated this additional funding from its departmental budget.