Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has to introduce covid-19 immunity passports.

In order to fully understand the potential of certification in the next phase of our national response to this pandemic, we first need to improve our understanding of how the immune system responds to infection with the COVID-19 virus.

COVID-19 is a new disease and the science around ‘immunity’ to the virus remains uncertain. We do not, for example, know how long an antibody response to the virus lasts nor whether having antibodies means one does not transmit the virus to others.