Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Andrea Jenkyns and Maggie Throup

Tuesday 5th July 2016 Commons Chamber

[Andrea Jenkyns (Morley and Outwood) (Con)]

1. What plans the Government have to lead the international response to the recommendations of the final report of the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, published in May 2016.

[Maggie Throup (Erewash) (Con)]

16. What plans the Government have to lead the international response to the recommendations of the final report of the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, published in May 2016.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Jane Ellison)]

The O’Neill AMR review is galvanising global awareness, as I have seen for myself, and it is greatly to the Prime Minister’s credit that he showed the foresight to commission it. The UK continues to play a global leadership role on antimicrobial resistance. We co-sponsored the World Health Organisation’s 2015 global action plan on AMR, we created the Fleming fund to help poorer countries to tackle drug resistance, and we are now championing action, including taking forward the O’Neill review’s recommendations, through the United Nations, the G7, and the G20.