Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make it her policy to including covid-19 vaccine donations on top of the 0.5% Official Development Assistance contribution for future years.

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

The 2021 Spending Review fully covers the cost of vaccine donations to meet the Prime Minister's commitment on donating 100 million surplus doses by June 2022 as part of the G7 dose-sharing commitments to vaccinate the world by 2022.