Coronavirus: Vaccination

(asked on 18th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many unused covid-19 vaccine doses have been destroyed as of 18 December 2023.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 8th January 2024

From December 2020 to 20 December 2023, 732,060 doses have been disposed of by the UK Health Security Agency. Vaccines are disposed of due to product damage or product expiry.

NHS England holds some information in relation to disposal within the NHS England supply chain, equating to 21,000 doses. This data was reported in the NAO report February 2022 and is the last published data, which is available at the following link:

https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/The-rollout-of-the-COVID-19-vaccination-programme-in-England.pdf

NHS England does not hold the data for disposal of vaccine once the vaccine has been delivered to vaccination sites.

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