| Heading: |
Disease Control: International Cooperation |
| Question ID: |
1795648 |
| UIN: |
47065 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-22 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5247 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Sojan Joseph
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| Asking Member handle: |
sojanuk
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@sojanuk
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking with his international counterparts to help tackle (a) tuberculosis and (b) other illnesses. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-25 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4264 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Doughty
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| Answering Member handle: |
SDoughtyMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@SDoughtyMP
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| Answer text: |
The UK has played a significant role with international counterparts to tackle tuberculosis (TB) in recent decades.Since 2002, TB deaths have been reduced by 36 per cent in countries where the Global Fund invests. The UK is a leading donor to the Global F... |
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| Answering body ID: |
208 |
| Answering body name: |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |