Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many covid-19 vaccines the Government has provided via Covax or bilaterally to (a) South Africa, (b) Botswana, (c) Namibia, (d) Lesotho, (e) Eswatini, (e) Zimbabwe, (f) Zambia, (g) Malawi, (h) Mozambique, (i) Mauritius in the last year; and how much covid-19 related Official Development Aid the Government has provided to each of those countries in the last year.
To date, the UK has delivered 16.1 million doses to recipients, either bilaterally or through COVAX. A further 5.8 million vaccine doses are with COVAX and in the process of being allocated and delivered and a further 9 million will be delivered to COVAX in the coming weeks
In 2020, the UK provided over £300 million in bilateral overseas development assistance to countries across Southern Africa. Of this, the countries referred to have received approximately £49 million in covid-19 related support. The UK has also provided significant additional support to multilateral efforts to alleviate the covid-19 crisis across Africa.