Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of people who have had health complications after receiving a covid-19 vaccination.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) operates the Yellow Card scheme on behalf of the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM). The scheme collects and monitors information on suspected safety concerns or incidents involving vaccines, medicines, medical devices, and e-cigarettes.

In the United Kingdom as of 5 May, 55,716 Yellow Cards have been reported for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, 167,141 for University of Oxford/AstraZeneca, 1,081 for Moderna and 606 where the brand of the vaccine was not specified. For the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, University of Oxford/AstraZeneca, and Moderna vaccines the overall reporting rate is approximately three to six Yellow Cards per 1,000 doses administered.