Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of vaccines that were unable to be administered as a result of (a) inadequate storage conditions or (b) other logistical implications of the 5.1 million covid-19 vaccine doses the UK donated to COVAX.

The UK will provide £548m to COVAX to finance vaccines for developing countries, in addition the UK has committed to donate 80 million vaccines from the UK supply through COVAX by June 2022. To date, the UK has donated 6.2 million doses through COVAX, which have been delivered to 14 different countries, including Ethiopia, Uganda and Pakistan. To date, COVAX has successfully delivered over 380 million vaccine doses to 144 participants. COVAX works with governments to ensure robust and transparent distribution and reporting plans are in place to monitor equitable distribution and allocation to priority groups in line with National Deployment and Vaccination Plans.