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Sixth Special Report - Global Health, Global Britain: Government Response to the Committee’s Fifth Report

Published 16 December 2021

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The government's response

This document responds to Fifth Report - Global Health, Global Britain.

This is the government's response, published 16 December 2021.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government sets out action across the Committee's recommendations, supporting a pandemic treaty and WHO reform while saying it is "yet to see evidence" for a single, non-renewable term for the WHO Director-General.

  • On WHO funding, it says it has led calls in the WHO working group for more flexible, reliable funding and for an increase in Assessed Contributions, and it announced a £340m, four-year flexible funding programme that is "now live".
  • On vaccines, it says it will "donate a total of 100 million doses by June 2022", with 80% of doses going through COVAX.
  • On the BBC World Service, it states that the BBC is editorially independent, so additional services to tackle disinformation are "for the BBC World Service to decide". It cites an £8 million uplift for 2021-22, of which £3 million was for disinformation.
  • On aid cuts, it describes the reduction to 0.5% of GNI as temporary, saying it will return to 0.7% "when the fiscal situation allows". It will publish a Health Systems Strengthening Position Paper before the end of the year, with decisions on publishing a global health strategic framework "in due course".

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