Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 17428

Vaccination: Waste Disposal

Tabled: 2 December 2024
Answered: 11 December 2024

Question

Tim Roca

LabourMacclesfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of vaccine doses that are thrown away due to reaching their expiry date before they could be used.

Answer

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) manages the central storage and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines for the United Kingdom’s programme. In their published accounts for the financial year 2022/23, the figure was £143.280 million. The following table sh...

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