Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she will allow low- and middle-income countries to waive intellectual property rights on covid-19 (a) vaccines, (b) therapies and (c) diagnostics in line with Indian and South African government’s proposal at the World Trade Organisation to allow the necessary scale-up in production required.
I refer the Hon. Gentleman for Harrow West to the answer I gave to the Hon. Gentleman for Birkenhead on 17th May 2021 (UIN: 448).