Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to re-launch the Joint-Industry Government Working Group on Antimicrobial Resistance; and if he will make a statement.

We will re-launch the Joint Government/Industry Working Group on antimicrobial resistance later this year. The group’s work will include collaboration on the discovery and development of new antimicrobials, in particular with respect to the United Kingdom’s pilot scheme to test an alternative, subscription reimbursement model for use of new antibiotics on the National Health Service.