Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government how they are enhancing surveillance systems for tracking antimicrobial resistance in the UK; and what measures they are taking to share this data with healthcare providers and the public.

The UK Health Security Agency publishes monthly data tables and quarterly and annual epidemiological commentaries on Gram-negative bacteraemia, Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Meticillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus

and Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infections in England using mandatory surveillance systems.

Data on infections and antimicrobial resistance are also published in the English Surveillance Programme for Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resistance (ESPAUR) annual report. The latest ESPAUR annual report for 2023 to 2024 was published on 14 November 2024.

A Four Nations Human Surveillance Group also meets regularly, and work is ongoing to interpret surveillance data consistently across the four nations.