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

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to reports of more virulent strains of COVID-19 appearing in Kent, South Africa and Brazil, what plans they have to purchase additional supplies of the Oxford/Modena and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines.

The Government has secured access to 367 million vaccines doses through agreements with seven separate vaccine developers. This includes 157 million doses of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca, , Pfizer/BioNTech, and Moderna vaccines.

The Government continues to monitor the landscape of COVID-19 vaccine development, both here in the UK and internationally, and will keep the situation under review.