Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the AstraZeneca vaccine is being phased out; and what estimate he has made of the proportion of all UK vaccines issued that are AstraZeneca.

The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine continues to be deployed as part of the vaccine programme. As of 1 December 2021, an estimated 24.9 million first doses and an estimated 24.1 million second doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine have been administered.