Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to support the delivery of publicly-owned health care in Bangladesh.

The UK's health programmes in Bangladesh aims to address the fundamental challenges in Bangladesh's public healthcare provision. The FCDO's £84 million 'Better Health in Bangladesh Programme' provides financial and technical assistance to the Government of Bangladesh's national health sector programme. Our support helps empower women and girls through better sexual and reproductive health and rights, and over the last four years, we have helped deliver over 89,000 babies safely, provided 987,892 family planning users with contraceptives, reached 1.5 million under five children with nutrition services, and screened over 630,000 women for cervical cancer. We also support the Government of Bangladesh to include health in the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) on Climate Change, and tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR). We will maintain our strong partnership with Bangladesh's Ministry of Health and its departments to deliver our commitment on ending preventable deaths, through need-based and responsive technical assistance support.