Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, in the context of the absence of OECD DAC agreement on the pricing of surplus vaccine dose donations, and the issuance of guidance by the DAC Secretariat, whether the remaining 70 million surplus vaccine doses to be donated to countries in need by June 2022 will be counted as Official Development Assistance.

The DAC Secretariat has now provided guidance for reporting donations of excess COVID-19 vaccine doses in ODA for 2021 only. We will continue to engage as the DAC Secretariat review their methodology for donations in 2022.