Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Prime Minister's comments to the G7 on the 19 February 2021, what recent steps he has taken to deliver on the commitment to send the majority of any future surplus vaccines to the COVAX scheme; and what the timetable is for those donations.

The UK is committed to rapid, equitable access to safe and effective vaccines, treatments, and tests globally. We have already contributed £548 million to the COVAX Advance Market Commitment, a mechanism to support access for over 100 countries. The Prime Minister has confirmed that the UK will share the majority of any surplus vaccines with COVAX. However, it is too early to determine how many doses of the vaccines that the UK has ordered will not be needed for the UK population. This is under constant review.