Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health & Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that the publicly funded research and development costs of (a) a vaccine for covid-19 and (b) drugs to treat that disease are (i) published and (ii) provided to (A) other governments and (B) the WHO's Global Observatory on Health Research and Development.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The United Kingdom Government has committed £24.6 million for COVID-19 research through a joint Rapid Response Research Call and is providing over £45 million in funding to two UK vaccine candidates. Details of the projects funded through the joint Rapid Response call, including the amount of funding granted are publicly available on the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and UK Research and Innovation-Medical Research Council websites.
The UK Government is a signatory of the 2013 Helsinki declaration which states that research studies must be registered on an internationally recognised trial registry. The International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number Register is the internationally recognised registry of choice for primary research in the UK and feeds into the World Health Organization’s own systems. All NIHR-funded primary research studies are required to register in an appropriate registry.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the results of clinical trials from publicly funded research on covid-19 are (a) provided to the WHO primary clinical trial registry and (b) uploaded to clinicaltrials.gov.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The United Kingdom Government is a signatory of the 2013 Helsinki declaration which states that research studies must be registered on an internationally recognised trial registry. The International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number Register (ISRCTN) is the internationally recognised registry of choice for primary research in the UK and feeds into the World Health Organization’s own systems. Other internationally recognised registries may be appropriate or required for the primary registry; e.g. where there is a regulatory requirement.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 30 April 2020 to Question 38926, how much funding the Pan-African Network for Rapid Research, Response, Relief and Preparedness for Infectious Disease Epidemics has received from Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding through his Department’s ODA-funded global health research portfolio in each of the last five years.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The 5 million euros funding from the Department to the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) in support of the four-year March 2018 to February 2022 project the Pan-African Network for Rapid Research, Response, Relief and Preparedness for Infectious Disease Epidemics (PANDORA-ID-NET) was made in December 2017 as part of the Department‘s contribution to EDCTP’s 2016 workplan. To date EDCTP has disbursed 2.8 million euros in 2018 and 546,000 euros in 2020 to the PANDORA-ID-NET project, a total of 3,346,000 euros in the Department’s Official Development Assistance funding.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department is providing to the African Coalition for Epidemic Research Response (ALERRT) initiative.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The African Coalition for Epidemic Research Response has received United Kingdom’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding through the Department’s ODA-funded global health research portfolio.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department is providing to the Pan-African Network For Rapid Research, Response, Relief and Preparedness for Infectious Disease Epidemics (PANDORA-ID-NET) project.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Pan-African Network for Rapid Research, Response, Relief and Preparedness for Infectious Disease Epidemics (PANDORA-ID-NET) has received United Kingdom Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding through the Department’s ODA-funded global health research portfolio.