Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what flagship countries his Department has identified for implementation of the Ending Preventable Deaths Approach Paper; and what progress his Department has made on implementation of the Paper.

We have identified eleven potential flagship countries: Bangladesh, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Somalia and South Sudan. We are conducting bottleneck analysis to determine how best the UK could support accelerated action on EPD.

Since the paper was launched, other progress includes: pledging at least £1.5 billion to improve nutrition for mothers, babies and children; £1.65 billion to GAVI's immunisation work; £15 million to support the Global Financing Facility for women, children and adolescents; and £1 billion to the Global Fund, helping to prevent deaths from HIV, TB, and malaria.