Speeches

Paul Maynard – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Maynard on 2016-02-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, who the Government plans to send as its representative to the discussions on research and development of pharmaceuticals at the World Health Organisation meeting in March 2016.

Mr Nick Hurd

As outlined in the response to PQ (House of Commons written), Hansard ref 27784; the meeting at the World Health Organisation (WHO) has been postponed to May 2016 and arrangements about the meeting are at an early stage. DFID officials are in discussion with WHO senior managers about UK representation at the meeting.