Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, where the fridges ordered for the purpose of containing the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine will be located; and whether those fridges will be portable.

Public Health England has secured 58 specialised Twin Guard ultra-low temperature freezers which provide sufficient storage for approximately five million doses of potential COVID-19 vaccines which require ultra-low temperature storage. The cost of the purchase of the ultra-low temperature freezers is commercially sensitive. The ultra-low temperature freezers are in the United Kingdom, fully operational, and located in national storage facilities both in Great Britain and in Northern Ireland, in readiness for the commencement of a COVID-19 immunisation programme. The freezers are not portable.