Speeches by Dalton.

“On UK leadership, we remain co-ordinating on a global stage for AMR. Dame Sally remains as the AMR ambassador and has the networks and good will that she has built, and the understanding in other countries is phenomenal. I continue to work with my counterparts across the World Health Organisation membership in leading …”

“Well, nobody has signed it at all yet.”

“The interesting thing is that we are at a pretty unique place with pandemic preparedness and agreement across the world. The pandemic agreement is three years of negotiations of member states of the World Health Organisation, and it has been adopted. I do not underestimate how astonishing it was to get to the stage whe…”

“I love it.”

“On UK leadership, we remain co-ordinating on a global stage for AMR. Dame Sally remains as the AMR ambassador and has the networks and good will that she has built, and the understanding in other countries is phenomenal. I continue to work with my counterparts across the World Health Organisation membership in leading …”

“I think it depends on what assistance we are looking at. Where we have the outbreaks, we will be responding to that. I do not know if you have any more detail on how we plan to take that forward.”

“Yes, I cannot clarify exactly but that is over the Parliament, is my understanding. The support for the public health rapid support team continues, and that has been prioritised. I think it is important to say that obviously decisions are having to be made about the spending review, but what we have done is prioritise …”

“That is I think over—I am looking at you for the detail.”

“Absolutely. It is important to note that in the autumn Budget last year the Government announced funding for pandemic preparedness to the tune of £460 million.[1] That is an investment in strengthening the UK’s pandemic preparedness.”

“The AMR work sits alongside a much wider approach to pandemic preparedness. We have absolutely no idea where the next pandemic will come from and it might very well start in the UK. We cannot say that is not the case. We don’t know what it will look like. Chances are it won’t look like covid did and we will have an awf…”

“The Department of Health and Social Care is looking at how we streamline AMR into tailored country pandemic responses so that it becomes something that countries across the globe are doing, not something that is sitting outside of that. We have a wide network of partners and we are maximising the opportunities for sust…”

“What I am saying is that we are all working in a difficult financial situation and some choices have had to be made. What I am saying is that from the work that we have done with the Fleming Fund, there is an awful lot that we can take forward from what we have learned without actually continuing with the actual fund i…”

“We have done an awful lot of work with the Fleming Fund, as you will be aware. Dame Sally has led some amazing work on that. I co-chaired a breakfast on AMR specifically at the World Health Assembly earlier this year to share some of the expertise and work again with our global counterparts. What we have learned from t…”

“As Anna pointed out, part of the Fleming Fund was about creating databases so that we can monitor, and those databases are being created. What is really important is that we are moving towards mainstreaming this activity in other countries, pandemic preparedness. Rather than saying that the UK will pay for this across …”

“It is fair to say we do not have any actual modelling at the moment on how the USAID cuts will impact HIV or TB or malaria, and it is a bit difficult to do that at this stage. Having said that, we are continuing to monitor it. The UK Health Security Agency is providing expert scientific and public health advice, suppor…”

“That is absolutely right. I think that is also where one of our opportunities is. A key expertise that we built here in the UK during covid was the creation of the UK Health Security Agency, which has fast become a renowned force globally for technical expertise. We have seen with the US pulling out of various fora acr…”

“I agree with all of that. Pandemic preparedness, vaccinations, and we have done an awful lot of work on antimicrobial resistance and are an awful lot further along on that than we were a few years ago. Ensuring that the United Kingdom is prepared for a future pandemic is a real top priority for the Government and we ar…”

“I don’t know if we have any specific timescales.”

“I am Ashley Dalton. I am the Minister for Public Health and Prevention and global and international health comes under my brief.”

“Absolutely.”