Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of each of the available vaccines in limiting the transmission and spread of covid-19.

The full impact of vaccination on infection and transmission is not yet clear, but Public Health England (PHE) have undertaken their first analysis of the early effects of COVID-19 vaccination using routine testing and vaccination data across England. This data, published on 1 March 2021, provides early evidence that both the Pfizer and Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines are having a significant effect on the reduction of COVID-19 infection, hospitalisations and deaths in those over 70 years old across England.