Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to support programmes to tackle preventable child deaths from pneumonia in less developed countries.

The UK is the largest donor to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which delivers the pneumococcal vaccine to developing countries to protect against the main cause of pneumonia. Between 2010 and 2016, 109 million children received the vaccine with Gavi support, saving an estimated 762,000 lives.

As part of the UK’s commitment to achieving the Global Goals, DFID supports countries to build stronger health systems that are better able to deal with all causes of ill health including pneumonia.