Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle the spread of superbugs.

The Government recognises the importance of tackling superbugs. This is why, in January 2019, it published the United Kingdom’s 20 year vision for antimicrobial resistance (AMR), accompanied by a five year National Action Plan. The UK wants to see a world in which AMR is contained and controlled by 2040 and recognises that it cannot achieve this alone. It will require coordinated One-Health action across all sectors, all over the world. The UK will continue to play its part by modelling best practice and innovative approaches at home, sharing good practice and learning from others, and supporting progress internationally.

The UK five year national action plan sets out challenging five year ambitions.