Asked by: Lord Browne of Belmont (Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of UK official development assistance was allocated for the treatment of diabetes in the last two years.
Answered by Lord Bates
Details of the UK’s official development assistance spend on health are published in Statistics on International Development https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-2017. Our reporting is based on internationally agreed OECD Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) codes, as part of our commitment to transparent reporting of development assistance in a way that permits international comparisons. Non-communicable diseases (which include diabetes) are not categories within the OECD-DAC codes.
As part of the UK’s commitment to achieving the Global Goals, DFID supports countries to build stronger health systems that can respond to both the existing disease burden and changing health needs, including non-communicable diseases such as diabetes.
Asked by: Lord Browne of Belmont (Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much has been spent on specific steps to tackle the ebola outbreak in Africa to date.
Answered by Baroness Northover
Tackling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is a top priority for my department. The UK is leading the international response in Sierra Leone and to date has committed £230 million to fight the disease.