Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce compulsory COVID-19 vaccine certificates in order to help reduce the spread of the Omicron variant.

Certification based on vaccination or testing is now mandatory in certain settings. Visitors to these settings are required to have completed a full-course of COVID-19 vaccination with two doses of an approved vaccine or one of the single-dose Janssen vaccine; or be exempt from requirements to be vaccinated; or have taken a lateral flow device test or polymerase chain reaction test which has returned a negative result within 48 hours before visiting the venue or event.