Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2017 to Question 62581, if he will provide the (a) title, (b) location, (c) value, (d) organisation in receipt of the funding, (e) objectives and (f) timeframe of each project funded by his Department's Official Development Assistance budget in each year since 2014; whether any officials were on secondment as part of each such project; and what the expected outcome of each such project was; and if he will place in the Library a copy of that information.

The attached table shows the projects funded from the Department’s Official Development Assistance budget over the Spending Review period.

The Fleming Fund represents an investment in improving laboratory capacity for diagnosis and surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in low-income countries where AMR has a disproportionate impact and presents a global risk. The Fleming Fund will play a major role in supporting countries across the world to build their capacity for AMR surveillance, enabling the international community to better pinpoint and target the emergence of resistance at source.

The International Health Regulations Project will strengthen international efforts to improve global health security, through increased compliance with International Health Regulations. UK funding will contribute to action at national, regional and global, levels and lead to measurable strengthening of public health systems in up to four countries.

The Vaccines Network Project will develop vaccines, vaccine platform technologies and vaccine manufacturing technologies in preparation for, and response to, outbreaks of diseases with epidemic potential.

The United Kingdom Rapid Support Team will respond to urgent requests from countries around the world within forty eight hours to help control disease outbreaks that pose a threat to public health, intervening before they can develop into a global emergency.

Building on the strengths of UK health research leadership and world-leading expertise in public health and medical research, the Global Health Research funding will enable UK universities (in collaboration with institutions in developing countries), to undertake research to address health challenges. One focus of the fund will be non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, which affect people in the UK and increasingly in low and middle-income countries.

For details on the Tobacco Control Plan project, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Christchurch (Mr Christopher Chope MP) on 14 November 2016 to Question 52127.