Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, by what date she expects the UK to have donated to developing countries half of the 100 million doses of covid-19 vaccine that it has committed.

At the G20 in October the Prime Minister set out UK plans to donate an initial 70 million COVID vaccine doses. To date, 10.8 million doses have been delivered to recipients, 11 million are with COVAX and in the process of being allocated and delivered, and a further 9 million will be delivered to COVAX in the coming weeks direct from Astra Zeneca. In 2022, all of the 20 million Janssen vaccines that the UK has ordered will be donated as will most of the remainder of the UK's supply of AstraZeneca, as soon they come off the production line. This will mean that over half of the UK's total order of AstraZeneca will be donated to developing countries.