Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to page 17 of Statistics on International Development, Final UK Aid Spend 2021, published in November 2022, what the rationale was for using the price per dose as of August 2022 for calculating the value of excess vaccine doses which were donated to developing countries.

In 2021 the UK donated 30.8 million doses of Astra Zeneca Covid-19 vaccines to countries in need. We have reported ODA expenditure in line with 2021 OECD-DAC guidance. The UK contract with Astra Zeneca is no profit no loss so the final dose price will only be settled once all relevant expenditures have been taken into account. The August 2022 estimate was the best available at the time the statistics on vaccine donations were compiled. Should there be further changes to the price per dose, we will review these in line with the revisions policy https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1021440/FCDO-Revisions-Policy.pdf.