Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the United Nations publication entitled World Population Ageing, published 2017, if he will raise the topic of healthcare planning for an aging population at the United Nations high-level meeting on universal health coverage.

As set out in FCDO's Health Systems Strengthening Position Paper, health systems will need to continuously adapt, including for demographic changes such as ageing populations and growing youth generations. The UK will be advocating for renewed commitment to universal health coverage at the High-Level Meeting, including through scaling up investment of primary health care, stepping up efforts to address financial hardship from accessing healthcare, and addressing the global shortage of health workers, all of which will help to meet the needs of ageing populations.