A question on #Vaccination #WasteDisposal tabled by Tim Roca on 02-12-2024 has been answered by Andrew Gwynne.

Heading: Vaccination: Waste Disposal
Question ID: 1746329
UIN: 17428
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2024-12-02
Asking Member ID: 5287
Asking Member display name: Tim Roca
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Asking Member Twitter reference: Tim Roca
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Question text: 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.
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Date answered: 2024-12-11
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Answering Member ID: 1506
Answering Member display name: Andrew Gwynne
Answering Member handle: GwynneMP
Answering Member Twitter reference: @GwynneMP
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Answer text: 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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Answering body ID: 17
Answering body name: Department of Health and Social Care
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