Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the cost of delivering an annual covid-19 vaccination programme in pill format and administered by injection; and if he will make statement.

At present the Government is not aware of any Covid-19 vaccines in pill format under consideration for regulatory authorisation by the MHRA.

As such, no such assessment of the cost of a vaccine in pill format has been made.