§ Mr. ButlerTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what support the Overseas Development Administration has given to setting up a global early warning system for new epidemics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
§ Mrs. ChalkerNone; responsibility for global monitoring of notifiable diseases rests with the World Health Organisation. The London School of Hygiene and484W Tropical Medicine is an international centre for epidemiology and public health, and works closely with the WHO. The ODA has recently agreed a package of assistance (£11 million over the next five years) for nine new research and training programmes in public health and tropical medicine at the school. These programmes will strengthen the school's (and the ODA's) capacity to provide practical advice to international agencies and Governments in developing countries on all aspects of international health policy.