Pakistan: Development Aid
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the British High Commission Islamabad and British Deputy High Commission Karachi article entitled UK helps over 200,000 children improve reading and numeracy in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, published on 24 August 2026, what estimate has been made of the cost per child benefiting from the programme.
Answered by Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
These educational outcomes relate to the UK-funded education programme ILMpact in Pakistan, implemented by the British Council as the lead partner. The programme used a third-party firm for collection and validation of data on learning levels achieved in English, Urdu and Mathematics. This evidence points to positive learning gains with the UK's support. We used a comparison group to measure impact.
Girls accounted for 91.6 per cent of participants in the learning intervention. Around 35,000 children were brought back to school, and 125,538 children benefitted from disability inclusion initiatives.
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