Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on ensuring that those people who had their covid-19 vaccinations overseas can add their proof of vaccination onto the NHS Covid-19 App.

Since 9 December, individuals residing in England who have received a vaccine approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency administered overseas can record their vaccination on the National Immunisation Management System (NIMS). Those individuals are now able to book a face-to-face appointment at a specific vaccination centre to verify and record these doses in NIMS, which will then be displayed in the NHS COVID Pass.

The NHS COVID-19 App is primarily a contact tracing app. App users are anonymous so it cannot be used as proof of vaccination status. The NHS App provides access to a range of services including the NHS COVID Pass.