Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many appointments have been arranged to date for people who have received covid-19 vaccines abroad to register their inoculations; how many people are still awaiting an appointment; and what steps he is taking to increase the number of those appointments.

Approximately 9,000 appointments have been arranged for people to register their overseas vaccination into the National Immunisation Management System. This has resulted in 11,500 vaccination records being created. Information on the number of people awaiting an appointment is not held centrally. A further 13 new sites have been identified by regional teams to offer this service. This will double the current capacity by the end of March 2022.