Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the second dose of the covid-19 vaccines is not delayed.

The Government has secured early access to 457 million vaccines doses through agreements with eight separate vaccine developers to ensure that the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccines is not delayed. We remain in constant contact with vaccine manufacturers and work hard that the supply to the United Kingdom is not disrupted.

The Government is making excellent progress in its vaccination programme and is on track to have offered all adults their first dose by the end of July and a second dose no more than 12 weeks after their first.