Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many doses of monkeypox vaccine have been delivered to NHS patients (a) in the last 12 months and (b) since May 2022.

As of 30 August 2022, a total of 38,079 administered doses of vaccine have been recorded in England, of which 33,918 doses have been administered as pre-exposure vaccination, primarily to gay and bisexual people and other men who have sex with men. A further 1,992 doses have been provided to healthcare workers managing monkeypox cases and 2,169 doses have been given to close contacts of cases.

No smallpox vaccines were issued for the purposes of monkeypox response between September 2021 and May 2022.