Covid-19: Vaccine Production Debate
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Baroness Bryan of Partick
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Covid-19: Vaccine Production
Baroness Bryan of Partick Excerpts(3 years, 7 months ago)
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Lord Callanan (Con)
I am afraid that I do not agree with the noble Baroness. We are working with industry, the COVAX Manufacturing Task Force and the ACT-A Vaccine Manufacturing Working Group to champion other routes to scale up capacity and engage on forward supply chain planning in order to accelerate and progress vaccination programmes across the world. We think that is the best way forward.
Baroness Bryan of Partick (Lab) [V]
Ensuring accessible and affordable Covid-19 vaccines across the globe is a human rights duty that requires international co-operation. Can the Minister give details of government support for the WHO Technology Access Pool, and have the Government ensured that the intellectual property in respect of vaccines developed with the support of public funding has been deposited with C-TAP, in order to scale up production in countries that have untapped capacity?