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 ensure that the covid-19 passports of (a) students and (b) other people who have had their first and second dose of the covid-19 vaccine administered in different nations of the UK are (i) valid and (ii) do not require longer waits to be verified.
All United Kingdom certification systems are fully recognised in all four nations and do not require longer waits to be verified.
For a NHS COVID Pass to be issued, both vaccine doses must be recorded in national vaccine databases. NHS Digital has established bi-directional live data flows between England and Wales and England and Scotland. The NHS App can demonstrate vaccines administered in England, Wales and Scotland for residents registered with a general practitioner in England. Data flows will be established with Northern Ireland shortly.