Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings of the Nature article Learning from prepandemic data to forecast viralĀ escape, published on 11 October, about the use of artificial intelligence as a tool to predict virus variants and aid in vaccine developments.
It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.