Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department is having with its counterpart in Malta in respect of British tourists' entry to Malta whose covid-19 vaccine was manufactured at Serum Institute in India.

Following discussions with the Government of Malta, they are now accepting all travellers vaccinated with vaccine batch releases approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. This includes accepting all those who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the Serum Institute of India under the United Kingdom’s vaccination programme.