Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has made to prepare for the upcoming Commonwealth Health Ministers meeting.

The Department of Health and Social Care will be sending a delegation to represent the United Kingdom at the Commonwealth Health Ministers’ Meeting. As in previous years the Department of Health and Social Care is working with the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on our preparations for the wide ranging agenda items, which this year come under the theme of ‘Universal Health Coverage: Reaching the unreached, ensuring no one is left behind’. This will include preparing cross-Government views on the papers for discussion at the meeting, and examples of UK practices we might want to share. We will also be encouraging follow up on the health commitments made at the Commonwealth Summit in London last year.