Question follow-through · 27976

Vaccination: Production

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.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 3 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 6 Feb 2025
Answer: 7 Feb 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Feb 2025
Question tabled
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.
6 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Feb 2025
Answer published
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 ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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20 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many consultant posts are vacant in the each of the acute hospital trusts in the Cheshire and Merseyside ICB.

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