Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what change there has been in rates of malaria in countries receiving UK funding for anti-malarial products since January 2016.

The World Health Organization tracks rates of malaria and publishes these in its annual World Malaria Report. The latest available report, published in 2016, contains data up to 2015 and showed a decline in malaria cases of 21% globally between 2010 and 2015. The 2017 report is expected to be published in late November and will include data for 2016. Reliable data for 2017 will not be available until late 2018.

The UK provides support to all affected countries to tackle malaria through bilateral programmes, multilateral funding to the Global Fund and the World Health Organization, and support to strengthen health systems in endemic countries.