TUBERCULOSIS
Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will create a national strategy for tuberculosis in the UK. [155015]
Anna Soubry, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health: Public Health England (PHE) is leading a national oversight group for tuberculosis (TB), which brings together partners from the Department, NHS England, local government, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, British Thoracic Society, academia and TB Alert to develop a strategy to reverse the trend of increasing TB rates in the United Kingdom. The group held its first meeting on 10 April.
The Department will continue to support PHE in giving national policy leadership.