Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many covid-19 vaccine doses were donated to other countries between 1 November 2021 and 14 December 2021.

The UK has now fulfilled its pledge to donate 30 million coronavirus vaccine doses by the end of 2021, marking the 1-year anniversary of the UK becoming the first country to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines. Doses donated by the UK have reached four continents and provided vital protection from COVID-19 in over 30 countries including Angola, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Malawi, Nepal, and Rwanda.

COVAX accepted 10 million doses from the UK on 26 October, and another 10 million on 12 November.

Doses are delivered to COVAX directly from the manufacturer as soon as they are ready. Of these doses, 10.4 million were delivered to recipient countries between 1 November and 14 December. In addition, a further 235,000 doses were delivered to recipient countries on a bilateral basis from the UK in this time period.