Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential effect of proposed vaccine passports on covid-19 transmission at large events.

The NHS COVID Pass shows an individual’s COVID-19 vaccination details or test results to manage the risk of transmission and provide additional reassurance that events organisers are taking measures to reduce these risks. The evidence shows that use of the Pass does reduce transmission at large events as the vaccines are effective at preventing infection. There is also further evidence that should vaccinated individuals become infected there is a reduced risk of transmission to others of approximately 40 to 45% after one dose.