Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the evidence submission by the World Health Organisation to the International Development Committee in June 2021, what information her Department holds on what has happened to the estimated in-country inventory of 276,802,004 tablets at risk of expiry and incineration.

The UK reached hundreds of millions of people affected by neglected tropical diseases through our Accelerating the Sustainable Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases programme. The FCDO worked with implementing partners, pharmaceutical companies, donors and the World Health Organisation to mitigate the impact of our exit from the programme and we continued the delivery of urgent activities until August 2021. There have been no reported cases of donated drugs being destroyed and in some cases, activities have been continued by other donors. The full results of the programme will be published on the government development tracker (https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk) by March 2022.