Infectious Diseases: Disease Control

(asked on 17th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government has taken following the Global Pandemic Preparedness Summit 2022 to increase preparedness for the next Disease X, including on making safe and effective vaccines within 100 days; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 23rd January 2023

The United Kingdom hosted the Global Pandemic Preparedness Summit on 8 March 2022. $1.5 billion was raised for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). Working with CEPI is part of UK Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) international approach to future pandemic preparedness.

The Centre for Pandemic Preparedness (CPP) has been established in the UKHSA, to ensure the UK’s future pandemic response is faster, more effective and more efficient and to reduce the negative impacts of health threats to the UK. UKHSA has also established a new Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre, which will lead on developing and evaluating new and existing vaccines in collaboration with partners across government, industry and academia, ensuring we have the tools we need to protect health.

The UK is a proud supporter of the G7 100 Days Mission. Our work across the health family to contribute to this ambition will increase preparedness in the event of a next Disease X.

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