Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the £43,379,999 for the sharing of 100 million doses of covid-19 vaccines with countries in need, published in her Department's Development Tracker, whether that funding will be in addition to the 0.5 per cent ODA budget.

The cost of COVID-19 vaccine donations for 2021 has been additional to the Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget set out at the 2020 Spending Review (SR20) for 2021-22, but is expected to remain within 0.5% of Gross National Income (GNI) given the growth in GNI forecasts since SR20.

Departmental ODA budgets are increasing significantly over the Spending Review period due to forecast growth in GNI. SR21 fully covers the cost of vaccine donations to meet the Prime Minister's commitment on donating 100 million surplus doses by June 2022 as part of the G7 dose-sharing commitments to drive an intensified effort to vaccinate the world by 2022.