Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to meet commitments made at the 2018 UN High Level Meeting on Tuberculosis.

The UK helped to develop the political declaration agreed at the UNGA 2018 High-Level Meeting on TB. The UK is now working with other Member States to develop an accountability framework to ensure that momentum is maintained and to hold all countries which signed the political declaration to account.

DFID is focused on supporting low income countries to achieve these commitments. As the second largest donor to the Global Fund, we invest significantly in TB prevention, diagnosis and treatment. We invest in research to develop new tools to tackle TB, including diagnostics and treatments targeted at drug resistant TB. We also support countries to strengthen health systems that can deliver quality TB programmes.