Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to protect funding for UK-led global health research initiatives, following the reduction in the aid budget.

The transition to spending 0.3 per cent of Gross National Input on Official Development Assistance (ODA) demands significant shifts in the scale and shape of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's (FCDO) ODA Research and Development (R&D) portfolio. Our approach to R&D investments will be in line with the shifts underway across the FCDO as we modernise our approach to development. In line with broader reprioritisation of our ODA, ODA R&D will have a sharper focus on humanitarian, health and climate and nature, underpinned by work to develop partners' economies.