Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to ensure that learning from (a) the Mpox and (b) other outbreaks is used to inform long-term healthcare (i) policy and (ii) practices.

The UK Health Security Agency is assessing both the successes and issues arising from the response to mpox. We are also working with partners in Government, academia and industry to understand the findings from evaluation of COVID-19 policies and exercises and identify lessons that can be learned for future incidents.

We will build these lessons into the design and implementation of future policy and practice, and the Centre for Pandemic Preparedness is tracking them to ensure that improvement actions are taken.