Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of promoting the safety and effectiveness of covid-19 vaccines through the scientific industry.

The Department and the Vaccine Taskforce have worked extensively with organisations such as the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) and vaccine manufacturers and developers to highlight their work on vaccine safety. This includes the ABPI’s Valuing Vaccines campaign and direct collaboration with manufacturers such as AstraZeneca and Valneva and with Wockhardt to highlight safety of the fill/finish aspects of vaccine manufacture.