Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2022 to Question 98897 on Africa: Coronavirus, whether £7,000 is the entire planned budget for the Africa Vaccine Confidence Campaign.

Communication plays a central role in instilling vaccine confidence. The Africa Vaccine Confidence Campaign is producing social media content to tackle vaccine hesitancy. The total amount allocated to the Campaign is £8,500.

The Africa Vaccine Confidence Campaign is only part of the UK's work to address vaccine hesitancy. The UK-convened G7 Global Vaccines Confidence Campaign is sharing best practice in increasing vaccine confidence and establishing partnerships across G7 and non-G7 countries and with key academic institutions. It is also creating a platform through which relevant data, insight and effective strategies are shared with non-G7 partners. To help countries tackle the Omicron COVID-19 variant, we are also providing an additional £20 million to our existing work with Unilever to promote vaccine uptake alongside messaging to reduce COVID-19 transmission such as handwashing.