Laboratories: Disease Control
(asked on 13th March 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 March 2024 to Question 16313 on Laboratories: Disease Control, what the budget for the maintenance of Category 4 laboratories was for each of the last five years; and what funds have been allocated for such maintenance for the future.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The UK Health Security Agency’s Porton Down and Colindale scientific campus sites do not have separate operational costs for the Category 4 laboratories. Spend on the maintenance and operation of these sites is provided through the spending review process.
Work is ongoing to establish the most robust approach for continued delivery of the high-quality science at Porton Down