Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of facilities in the UK to manufacture a covid-19 vaccine.

The Government announced a £46 million package on 6 March that will be used to fund urgent work on finding a vaccine and developing a rapid test for the disease. Eight possible COVID-19 vaccines are currently under development and efforts are being made to get any viable vaccines from sequencing of the virus to clinical testing in under a year and United Kingdom experts and scientists expect to start trials for the first vaccine within a month.