Question follow-through · 16088
Polio: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing £100 million to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative for the 2025-26 financial year.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing £100 million to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative for the 2025-26 financial year.
2 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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2 Dec 2024
Answer published
The UK is a longstanding supporter of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), having contributed £1.4 billion since 1995. Flexible UK funding enables the GPEI to be responsive. UK funding was used to facilitate the two rounds of poliovirus vaccina...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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