Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria on global health systems strengthening.

The Global Fund takes a country-led approach, consistent with the approach to patient development set out in the International Development Strategy. They are the main multilateral grant funder of health systems investing $1 billion annually, strategically aligned with our Health Systems Strengthening position paper. Their new strategy sets out an ambitious role in continuing the organisation's support and strengthening health systems and in pandemic preparedness.