The government should ensure comprehensive plans are made for future risks and emergencies. The UK should aim to be a world leader in co-ordinating international resilience planning, including reform of the World Health Organisation to ensure that it is able to play a more effective role in future pandemics. The government partially accepts this recommendation. The government agrees with the importance of comprehensive planning for future risks and emergencies, and that the UK should aim to be a world leader in co-ordinating international resilience planning. The UK played a key role in the negotiations which led to the agreement to launch a process to develop a WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response at the Special Session of the World Health Assembly in December 2021. This process will be led by Member States, working through an Intergovernmental Negotiating Body, with a view to adoption at the World Health Assembly in 2024. The UK is committed to playing a full and active role in the negotiating body, and will support the WHO to strengthen its role in future pandemics. The UK will also support the WHO’s wider reform efforts to ensure it is fit for purpose to respond to future pandemics, and continues to advocate for improved transparency, accountability and effectiveness across the WHO, including through the Independent Office of Investigations.