Question about FOI refs. 21/957 and 22/554

Our Ref: FOI 22/1147

Dear Matt Cooper,

RE: REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

Thank you for your enquiry which we received on 16th November 2022.

I confirm that your request is now being handled under the Freedom of Information Act and you should receive a reply within 20 working days from our date of receipt.

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Kind Regards,

MHRA Customer Experience Centre
Communications and engagement team
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 4PU Telephone 020 3080 6000

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Dear Matt Cooper,

Thank you for your request; please accept our apologies for the delay in
sending this response.

Your request: Are the two vials of COVID-19 vaccine referenced in MHRA FOI
21/957 of the same two lot numbers mentioned in MHRA FOI 22/554?

A one-word answer is acceptable.

Our response: We believe the reference in your query should have been FOI
21/997 rather than 21/957. We have therefore based our review on that
reference.

In FOI 22/554 we indicated that vials tested from two batches of COVID-19
vaccine did not meet the required specification for one test: these
batches were not certificated by MHRA/NIBSC.

FOI 21/997 refers to vaccine lots there were not distributed to the UK and
were not tested by MHRA.

There is therefore no overlap.

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Yours sincerely,

MHRA FOI Team

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Dear Matt Cooper,

Thank you for your email.

We acknowledge that the Internal Review request is outstanding and we
apologise for the delay.

The review is currently being conducted and we hope to respond to you as
soon as we can.

Kind Regards

MHRA Customer Experience Centre

Communications and engagement team

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 4PU

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