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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, (a) how many and (b) which countries are being assisted by the UK to procure covid-19 vaccines.

The UK is proud to have joined COVAX, an international initiative to support the discovery, manufacture, and fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines across the world.

COVAX is an international alliance co-led by the Global Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and World Health Organization (WHO), with participation from over 180 countries.

The UK is one of the largest bilateral donors to the COVAX Advanced Market Commitment (AMC), which will give lower and middle-income countries equitable access to vaccines that are developed. The UK has committed £548 million to the COVAX AMC.

COVAX has so far shipped over 29 million COVID-19 vaccines to 46 countries.

Full details of UK’s GAVI commitments can be found here at https://www.gavi.org/investing-gavi/funding/donor-profiles/united-kingdom.

Full details of COVAX’s rollout can be found here at https://www.gavi.org/covax-vaccine-roll-out.