Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help deliver on the Prime Minister's call for G7 countries to help vaccinate the world against covid-19 by the end of 2022.

The UK is at the forefront of the international response to COVID-19. Our funding has enabled COVAX to deliver over 1.3 billion COVID vaccines to 87 developing countries. The UK has donated over 85 million doses, benefitting 42 countries, and offered a further 15 million doses.

The UK used its G7 Presidency in 2021 to mobilise G7 countries to donate vaccines that were surplus to domestic need, the majority channelled through COVAX. By May 2022, the G7 had donated 1.18 billion doses, more than the 870 million doses that G7 members agreed to make available by mid-2022. With supply no longer an issue, the UK is working with G7 and international partners such as COVAX Vaccine Delivery Partnership to tackle delivery bottlenecks and improve uptake in low coverage countries to meet national targets.