Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government has recently taken steps to (a) expand and (b) strengthen research into the treatment of people negatively affected by vaccines.

The Department commissions research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including vaccine side effects.

The NIHR has allocated over £110 million in funding for COVID-19 vaccine research that has included consideration of vaccine safety, including intensive monitoring of adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines. It is also funding a specific study to understand thrombosis and thrombocytopenia in COVID-19 and with COVID-19 vaccines.