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1522053

registered interest
date	13/10/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken since the 'COVID-19 action plan: G7 Foreign Ministers’ statement' was released in May 2022.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL2593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The UK has committed £2.1 billion since 2020 to help countries fight COVID and manage its impacts and we have donated over 85 million vaccine doses, which helped protect medical staff and vulnerable people, when there was a shortage of vaccines. As global vaccine supply now outstrips demand, the UK is supporting low-income countries to vaccinate their high-risk populations through the COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership.</p><p>Therapeutics and diagnostics are a fundamental part of pandemic response, both for COVID-19 and future health threats. That is why the UK co-chaired, with South Africa, the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator Working Group on Therapeutics and Diagnostics and in September, published its report setting out recommendations.</p><p>The UK is committed to acting on lessons from COVID-19 to ensure we are better prepared for the next health threat. The UK welcomes the new Financial Intermediary Fund for Pandemic Preparedness and is closely engaging on the development of a Pandemic Instrument to help strengthen international collaboration against future health threats.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 24/10/2022 11:12:11 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1488012

registered interest
date	11/07/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2022 to Question 106747 on Developing Countries: Coronavirus, what steps her Department is taking to help low-income countries to improve the capacity of their health systems to achieve their national target for vaccinating populations against covid-19.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	33814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>The UK is working with COVAX, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and other partners to support low-income countries in developing sustainable approaches to managing COVID-19 and other diseases. This means integrating COVID-19 vaccination and access to tests and treatment into primary health care. We support countries to set national targets, tailored to their context and priorities.</p><p>The UK continues to support strong and resilient national health systems, including public health functions such as surveillance, community engagement and vaccine confidence, to prevent and prepare for future disease outbreaks. For example, the UK leads the partner co-ordination group in Ethiopia, where our support to the national health system includes technical assistance for COVID-19 vaccination policy and delivery planning.</p> answering member constituency Cannock Chase answering member printed Amanda Milling question first answered 19/07/2022 14:25:51 answering member 4454 label Biography information for Dame Amanda Milling
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1456000

registered interest
date	30/03/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure the UK meets its £1billion fair share towards the costs of purchasing (a) vaccines, (b) tests, (c) treatment and (d) PPE in low and middle income counties required by ACT-A.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
uin	150285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2022 answer text <p>The UK has consistently championed global access to COVID-19 medical products to help end the pandemic as quickly as possible and has committed up to £1.4 billion to help end the pandemic and address its impacts. This includes up to £813 million of new UK Aid to ACT-Accelerator partners and up to £105 million of additional support announced in December 2021 to help vulnerable countries respond to the Omicron variant. Our 100 million dose-donation target is also part of one billion doses G7 leaders committed to share and finance during the UK's G7 Presidency.</p><p>The UK is working with international partners to develop more long-term, sustainable approaches to financing to help the world live with COVID-19 and protect against future variants.</p> answering member constituency Cannock Chase answering member printed Amanda Milling question first answered 21/04/2022 14:01:12 answering member 4454 label Biography information for Dame Amanda Milling
tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1416212

registered interest
date	25/01/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking with international partners to increase vaccination rates in developing nations to help ensure global protection from potential new variants of covid-19.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	905244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2022 answer text <p>The UK supports global vaccine access through the COVAX Facility, which has delivered over 1 billion doses. We have donated more than 30 million doses. Millions more will be sent in 2022. As supply increases, we are working with COVAX and country governments to ensure health systems are ready to deliver vaccines at scale.</p> answering member constituency Cannock Chase answering member printed Amanda Milling question first answered 25/01/2022 17:28:53 answering member 4454 label Biography information for Dame Amanda Milling
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1403816

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help enable low-income countries to meet the Independent Allocation of Vaccines Group recommendation, published on 21 December 2021, on vaccinating 70 percent of all countries populations against covid-19 by mid-2022.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	106747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>The UK is committed to ending the acute phase of the pandemic as soon as possible, and strongly supports the COVAX Facility as a key mechanism to deliver this. COVAX has now delivered over one billion vaccine doses to 144 countries and territories. The UK is among the largest donors to COVAX's Advance Market Commitment, committing £548 million to supply vaccines in up to 92 low and middle income countries. The UK has also donated more than 30 million doses, with millions more to be sent globally in 2022.</p><p>Many factors contribute to vaccination coverage levels, including supply, health system capacity and demand. The UK worked closely with the Independent Allocation of Vaccines Group established by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to develop WHO's global vaccination strategy and endorsed it at the G20 Leaders' Summit in October 2021. The UK recognises its recommendation for 70% vaccination coverage as well as its advice that countries need to set their own national targets based on local context and demographics.</p> answering member constituency Cannock Chase answering member printed Amanda Milling question first answered 21/01/2022 09:27:28 answering member 4454 label Biography information for Dame Amanda Milling
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1402698

registered interest
date	13/01/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress her Department has made in promoting joint ventures between covid-19 vaccine manufacturers in the UK and local companies in low and middle-income income countries.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	103569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>The UK backs the Oxford-AstraZeneca model of voluntary licensing to expand the production of affordable vaccines. With UK Government support, a global licencing deal helped transfer AZ's technology to other manufacturers and establish 20 supply chains across the world, including the Serum Institute of India. Around 2.5 billion Oxford-AstraZeneca doses have been delivered at cost to more than 170 countries. Almost two-thirds of these have gone to low and lower-middle-income countries, including more than 30 million doses donated by the UK through COVAX or bilaterally.</p><p>The UK has provided technical support to develop business cases for Biovac to manufacture vaccines in South Africa, Institut Pasteur in Senegal and to the Moroccan government. This technical support helped catalyse investment that will see COVID-19 vaccines produced on the African continent in 2022. We are also engaging with the new Partnership for African Vaccine Manufacturing to support development of its roadmap for African vaccine manufacturing.</p> answering member constituency Cannock Chase answering member printed Amanda Milling question first answered 18/01/2022 17:12:34 answering member 4454 label Biography information for Dame Amanda Milling
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1385202

registered interest
date	06/12/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risk presented to UK citizens by low vaccine rates in low income countries.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL4734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2021 answer text <p>The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has not made a specific assessment of the overall risk presented by low vaccine rates in low-income countries. However, the UKHSA produces regular assessments of the risk presented to the United Kingdom by travellers from other countries and nations. Assessment of vaccination coverage in low income countries forms part of these individual country risk assessments, including the risk/threat to public health in the UK. These risk assessments are used by Ministers to decide on border security measures, such as ‘red listing’.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 17/12/2021 12:40:25 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1360842

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent estimate he has made of the total cost of supplying enough vaccines to inoculate all poor nations against covid-19; whether there is a gap between his latest estimate and the international plans in place to meet that cost; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	58367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>The UK has led in supporting global access to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines from the outset of the pandemic. We are working with the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) and the Multilateral Leaders Taskforce (the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Health Organization and World Trade Organization) to assess the financing needed to supply and deliver vaccines to low- and middle-income countries. These costs are dependent on a variety of uncertainties, including the potential need for booster doses and in-country delivery costs. The ACT-A investment case will shortly publish the estimated costs required to meet global vaccination targets in 2022 and how these can be met.</p><p>The UK is among the largest donors to the COVAX AMC, committing £548 million. Over 378 million vaccines have been delivered globally through COVAX to 144 participants. The UK's G7 Presidency secured agreement from leaders to support vaccinating the world in 2022 and to share and finance an additional 1 billion doses over the next year to accelerate vaccine roll-out. The UK committed to share 100 million doses, with 80% going to COVAX. Over 10 million doses have been delivered, with over 6 million doses shared through COVAX. The UK is committed to work with International Financial Institutions who have a central role in sustainably financing the supply and delivery of vaccines.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 25/10/2021 16:38:25 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1360847

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what information she holds on the proportion of the population of low-income countries that have received (a) one dose and (b) two doses of a covid-19 vaccine; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	58371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2021 answer text <p>According to Our World in Data, 2.8% of people in low-income countries have so far received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. World Health Organization advises that 26 African countries receiving COVID-19 vaccines have administered two doses to 2% of their populations. The UK is committed to equitable, global access and is working with international partners to increase global supply, including to low-income countries. This includes our £548 million support for COVAX's Advance Market Commitment, which will aim to supply up to 1.8 billion doses to up to 92 low and middle income countries by early 2022. The UK has also committed to share 100 million doses by mid-2022. Over 10 million of these doses have been donated so far.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 22/10/2021 08:33:30 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1359788

registered interest
date	15/10/2021
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the impact of covid-19 on the number of children expected to experience stunted growth as a result of malnutrition.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	57240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>We have worked to strengthen monitoring of the impacts of COVID-19 on nutrition. This includes compiling evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on nutrition outcomes and interventions, including on disruptions of key services and food consumption patterns. Research shows that by the end of 2022, COVID-19 and related economic impacts could result in an estimated additional 9.3 million wasted and 2.6 million stunted children. Prevention and treatment of malnutrition is part of FCDO's response to address the indirect impacts of COVID-19 in countries such as Somalia, Yemen, South Sudan and Ethiopia.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 25/10/2021 09:09:05 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous