Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that the NHS records single or double dose covid-19 vaccines received abroad so that patients can obtain an NHS England Covid pass.

On 30 September we launched a pilot for English residents vaccinated abroad to request that their vaccines, either single or double doses, are uploaded to the national database. Vaccines equivalent to those approved in the United Kingdom and regulated by the European Medicines Agency, the United States Food and Drug Administration, Health Canada, Swissmedic and the Therapeutic Goods Administration can be recorded on the NHS COVID Pass. We are working to understand which non-Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency approved vaccines we would be confident to recognise on the NHS COVID Pass.