Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to replenish out-of-date bed nets in malaria-endemic countries.

DFID is the second largest international funder to the global malaria response. We fund the provision of bednets for new users and to replace older bednets, through bilateral country programmes, and through the significant UK investment in the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. With UK funding the Global Fund will provide 79 million insecticide treated long lasting bednets from 2014 to 2019.