Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 30 April 2020 to Question 38926, how much funding the Pan-African Network for Rapid Research, Response, Relief and Preparedness for Infectious Disease Epidemics has received from Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding through his Department’s ODA-funded global health research portfolio in each of the last five years.

The 5 million euros funding from the Department to the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) in support of the four-year March 2018 to February 2022 project the Pan-African Network for Rapid Research, Response, Relief and Preparedness for Infectious Disease Epidemics (PANDORA-ID-NET) was made in December 2017 as part of the Department‘s contribution to EDCTP’s 2016 workplan. To date EDCTP has disbursed 2.8 million euros in 2018 and 546,000 euros in 2020 to the PANDORA-ID-NET project, a total of 3,346,000 euros in the Department’s Official Development Assistance funding.