Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people vaccinated against covid-19 outside of the UK are able to (a) register their vaccination status with the NHS and (b) access a domestic Covid Pass through the NHS App.

Currently only people fully vaccinated under the United Kingdom’s vaccination programme can be certified through the NHS COVID Pass. Work is underway to determine which non-Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency approved vaccines we could recognise with confidence to enable UK residents vaccinated abroad to demonstrate their vaccination status. A pilot will be launched in England from the end of September.