Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress has been made towards the establishment of an independent international investigation into the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The UK has always been clear that, at the right time, there will need to be a full and independent review into the pandemic. Our immediate focus remains stopping the spread of the virus through international action. The World Health Assembly resolution on COVID-19, which the UK is co-sponsoring, calls on the WHO to initiate an independent and comprehensive evaluation. This will be an important step in learning the lessons of this pandemic.