Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the effect of withdrawing aid to middle-income countries on achieving the sustainable development goal to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.

The UK relies on reports and data produced by UNAIDS and other partners such as the World Health Organisation to assess progress on ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.

The UK is increasingly working with multilateral partners such as the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, that have the capacity to deliver the large-scale, low-cost programmes needed in HIV burdened regions in the most effective way and at the best value to the taxpayer. Middle Income Countries are due to receive nearly 50% of all Global Fund resources from 2017-2019, to which the UK has made a significant investment of £1.1 billion.