Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his timescale is for the delivery of the 250,000 Imvanex doses needed to fulfil the monkeypox vaccination programme.

Over 150,000 doses of the vaccines used for monkeypox have been procured by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), with the final deliveries of vaccine expected by the end of October 2022. The UKHSA’s expert advice, endorsed by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, is to offer two vaccine doses to a defined high-risk cohort. This cohort is comprised of 111,000 individuals in the United Kingdom and we have sufficient stock to vaccinate the eligible cohort.