Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 16
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Government's 2019-24 AMR action plan targets largely unmet with slow progress.
Conclusion
The government achieved only one of the five quantitative domestic targets it set as part of the 2019–24 NAP–reducing the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals.41 The 2019–24 NAP also set 128 commitments for DHSC and Defra which related to the UK or England. However, specific deadlines were not set for the commitments and by January 2024 only seven were recorded as being fully implemented.42 The government acknowledged in the 2024–29 NAP that, in some areas, progress on tackling AMR has been slow and there has been insufficient focus on and resources allocated to AMR.43
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 18 September 2025. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗