Written questions

Vaccination: Production

Commons · Question 27976 · Tabled 3 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 7 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Derek Twigg

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the required domestic capacity for vaccine production in the event of a pandemic.

Answer

Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 7 Feb 2025

As we saw in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring that the United Kingdom’s population has ready access to pandemic vaccines as soon as they are available is critical to our ability to respond to and recover from any future pandemic. Whilst it ...