Coronavirus: Vaccination

(asked on 12th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the expiry dates of (a) domestic surplus covid-19 vaccines and (b) future vaccine donations to the COVAX programme; and what steps he is taking to mitigate potential wastage.


Answered by
Wendy Morton Portrait
Wendy Morton
This question was answered on 19th July 2021

Our G7 Presidency in June championed equitable access to vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics and confirmed the UK will share 100 million doses within the next year, 30 million of those by the end of 2021 with 5 million doses shared by the end of September, beginning in the coming weeks. Expiry of vaccines and the need to ensure no wastage of vaccines takes place remains a significant element in our planning of when and where the UK will share/deploy doses both domestically and with international partners. No vaccines will be shared without an agreement there is time for recipients to distribute and deploy vaccines before expiry.

Decisions on which vaccines will be shared and when will also be based on the continued reliability of supply chains, regulatory restrictions and advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).

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