Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what funding her Department provided for bilateral programmes on tuberculosis in the financial years (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17.

DFID supports TB control through both bilateral and multilateral channels. The Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria is the principal mechanism the UK uses to finance our contribution to combat TB. We have pledged up to £1.1 billion for 2017-2019 to this Fund. We also support countries to strengthen their health systems so as to better address all causes of ill health including TB. In addition we support research on TB including to develop more effective diagnostics and treatment.

Our purely bilateral spending on TB, which we publish by calendar year, is: £7,938,747 for 2013; £16,312,293 for 2014; and £10,017,171 for 2015. Data beyond 2015 has not yet been published.

Data on UK aid expenditure is published each year and can be accessed from the link below

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-2016