Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason there was redacted specific contractual information concerning the (a) price of vaccine doses, (b) the use of doses, liability rules, and (c) the ownership of IP and industrial trade secrets within the UK’s Government’s procurement contracts for covid-19 vaccines; and what assessment he has made of the impacts of reduced transparency in such documents.

Specific contractual information was redacted in the published contracts for COVID-19 vaccines, as it is commercially sensitive. This redaction ensures that commercially confidential and personal data is not disclosed.