Written questions

Coronavirus: Vaccination

Commons · Question 76500 · Tabled 10 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 30 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Josh Fenton-Glynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing funding for (a) vaccines and (b) the wider medtech sector in the context of the US Government’s decision on mRNA vaccine research.

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 30 Sep 2025

Vaccines are an important tool for preventing and lessening the impacts of disease. The Department invests in vaccine research through several routes, targeting interventions in areas essential for health resilience, such as mRNA vaccine technology. For i...