Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish details of the proposed sale of the Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC) including (a) which parts of VMIC are up for sale and (b) an estimate of the timeline for a sale to take place.

The Government is not selling the facility. VMIC Limited is a private company and has always been a private company. Any decisions and information regarding the future of the company and its facilities are the responsibility of the VMIC Board of Directors. The Government supported VMIC as part of our 2017 Life Science Strategy commitment to vaccines innovation, which the pandemic has dramatically accelerated.