Speeches

Greg Knight – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Knight on 2016-03-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the Government has contributed to the World Health Organisation in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

Jane Ellison

The Department contributes financially, on a calendar year basis, to the World Health Organization (WHO) in the form of the United Kingdom’s assessed contribution, and voluntary contributions to support areas of work such as dementia, tobacco control and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), including a contribution in 2015 to support the WHO Global Action Plan on AMR. The Department’s contributions for the last three years are set out in the table below.

year

Assessed contribution (£)

Voluntary contribution (£)

2013

19,482,012.20

153,957.75

2014

15,343,925.23

719,233.11

2015

15,129,522.23

3,778,937.56