Coronavirus: Vaccination

(asked on 12th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the £43,379,999 for the sharing of 100 million doses of covid-19 vaccines with countries in need, published in his Department's Development Tracker, what the cost of purchasing those 100 million doses was to the public purse.


Answered by
George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 17th November 2021

My Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister, at the G7 Summit in June, committed to donate 100m doses that we do not need for the UK vaccination programme. The cost of these doses will depend on both the specific vaccines donated and their cost. The cost of COVID-19 vaccine donations will be funded through UK Official Development Assistance and will be reported as such.

We are not able to disclose specific costs of individual vaccines procured to date, as details of contracts between the Government and vaccine manufacturers are commercially sensitive.

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