Subject	Predicate	Object
yTMIzzQ8	a	Resource
		Answer
		Written answer
	answer has question	LfH4nz0P
	answer has answering person	Wendy Morton
	answer text	<p>The UK remains committed to polio eradication, and supports the work of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), to which we have provided £1.37 billion since 1995. GPEI have led efforts that have eradicated wild polio from all but 2 countries, with the African region being declared free of wild polio last year. The difficult economic situation has meant that we have had to reduce the aid budget, including for programmes such as GPEI. We will return to spending 0.7% of our Gross National Income on Official Development Assistance when the fiscal situation allows.</p><p>The UK is clear on its support to maintain polio surveillance. As demonstrated in our participation at the World Health Assembly and G7 communiques, new pandemic measures should build on existing surveillance systems from polio.</p>
	answer given date	2021-12-15
	answer has answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	written answer has answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	answering body has written answer	yTMIzzQ8
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	answering body has answer	yTMIzzQ8
LfH4nz0P	question has answer	yTMIzzQ8
Wendy Morton	answering person has answer	yTMIzzQ8