Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ask the Chief Medical Officer to update his open letter of 11 June 2021 to all covid-19 vaccine trial participants to clarify the validity of their covid-19 vaccination status.

The Deputy’s Chief Medical Officer’s letter reiterated the importance of the clinical trials and that participants should not be disadvantaged. We are currently working with the National Immunisation Management Service to allow participants to access their NHS COVID Pass for both domestic and international travel purposes. In the interim, participating clinical trial sites have provided a letter to participants which certifies that they are in a clinical trial and should be recognised as vaccinated.