The UK is on track to meet its commitment to increase its annual spending on family planning from £90 million per year to £180 million per year by 2020. This increased support has resulted in almost 5 million additional women being reached with family planning services by mid-2014, almost 4% of the 2020 target^[1].

By 2012, DFID programmes are estimated to have saved over 16,000 maternal deaths using LiST modelling^[2]. This is good progress but the gains have to be sustained.

[1] DFID Departmental Results Framework

[2] Lives Saved Analysis for the Department of International Development (DFID) Year 2: Global Programs 2010-2012 and 2010-2015