HL Deb 08 June 1981 vol 421 cc111-2WA
Lord Brockway

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will give full support to the call of the 150-nation World Health Organisation assembly for the implementation of a programme of "Health For All By The Year 2000"; whether they will give wide publicity to the programme; and whether they will contribute to the cost of research for vaccines for untreated endemic diseases in the third world and provide expert assistance for this purpose.

Lord Cullen of Ashbourne

The Government will continue to support the programme for Health For All By The Year 2000 and will take every opportunity to publicise this important initiative.

Research into vaccines for third world endemic diseases is being undertaken already in the United Kingdom (at the National Institute for Medical Research, at Guy's Hospital, and elsewhere) using British expertise, and we intend that this shall continue. In addition, expert assistance is being given to the World Health Organisation's expanded programme of immunisation, to which in the current year we shall be contributing up to £50,000.