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 on the adequacy of the international provision of the covid-19 vaccine access to British Nationals abroad, who are unable to return to the UK due to national or International travel restrictions or being unable to afford the associated costs of hotel quarantine in the UK, due to being ineligible to access deferred repayment plans when returning from a red list country.

As a residence-based system, the National Health Service does not provide healthcare, including vaccinations, outside the United Kingdom. The normal rules on access to the NHS will continue to apply.

Wherever possible, British nationals should aim to be vaccinated in the country where they live. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office are closely monitoring other countries’ vaccination plans and will share information on local vaccine programmes on their travel advice pages as they are announced. Anyone choosing to travel should consider the public health advice and travel restrictions in the country they are visiting and factor costs associated with the requirement to quarantine on arrival to the UK.