Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking with international partners to increase vaccination rates in developing nations to help ensure global protection from potential new variants of covid-19.

The UK supports global vaccine access through the COVAX Facility, which has delivered over 1 billion doses. We have donated more than 30 million doses. Millions more will be sent in 2022. As supply increases, we are working with COVAX and country governments to ensure health systems are ready to deliver vaccines at scale.