Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of changes to levels of grant overseas development assistance on the UK’s contribution to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.

The UK pledged £850 million in the Global Fund's Eighth Replenishment. This is expected to save up to 1.3 million lives and avert 22 million new infections, generating an estimated £13 billion in health and economic returns. Despite a necessary reduction in the Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget, the UK has prioritised global health, reducing the Global Fund contribution by only 15 per cent compared to a 40 per cent overall ODA reduction.