Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 16088

Polio: Disease Control

Tabled: 25 November 2024

Answered: 2 December 2024

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Question

Dan Tomlinson

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing £100 million to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative for the 2025-26 financial year.

Answer

Anneliese Dodds

The UK is a longstanding supporter of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), having contributed £1.4 billion since 1995. Flexible UK funding enables the GPEI to be responsive. UK funding was used to facilitate the two rounds of poliovirus vaccina...

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