Bishop Chris; Hipkins ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National): Thank you Mr Chair. It'd be helpful if when the questions are asked they're answered because with respect my two questions in my last contribution were not answered.The question is a very specific one which is: at what point in the recent past has the Government reached out to a Government or Governments—plural—to seek additional supply of Pfizer? On what date—or around about what date if the Minister doesn't have the precise date in his head—did the Government do that?Then the second question was in relation to rolling out AstraZeneca or Novavax for those who don't for whatever reason wish to take a mRNA vaccine. So I put those two back on the table and add two more questions given the Minister's keen on more questions all at once. The third question is in relation to data collation at the border. One of the things that I think many people are interested in is why we do not currently collect as I understand it vaccination records of people who go through managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ); so what vaccine they have when they got it what type of vaccine they have. The reason why that's important is obviously you can then once you work out who's in MIQ and if they're vaccinated correlate that with the testing data the day zero now the day five test the day 12 test potentially tests after that to figure out—well it would be useful when we devise our future border strategy and I think many people are interested in that. As I understand it we don't do that. I think people want to know why.Then fourthly in relation to vaccination is the issue of incorporating proof of vaccination status into some sort of digital app and what the time line is on that for the forthcoming year. Our vaccination rates are going up that's a fantastic thing but people are worried about being able to prove that they are vaccinated offshore. It's already an issue for New Zealanders who have been vaccinated and then subsequently travelled. I think people would be reassured if the Government could provide some expeditious assurance as to when they'll be able to prove electronically that they've been vaccinated as opposed to just having the little card which at the moment as I've pointed out to the member privately and publicly as well is not even being filled out in quite a few parts of the country right now.Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister for COVID-19 Response): Just very quickly the discussions around international negotiations on getting extra vaccines into the country in terms of bilateral arrangements have happened over the last six weeks to two months.In terms of AstraZeneca Janssen and Novavax I'd note Novavax hasn't been approved by Medsafe for use in New Zealand at the moment but our agreement with them is for supply in the first quarter of next year. In terms of Janssen they have indicated to us that supply is a problem at their end. So obviously that's a commercial discussion that's taking place between us and them at the moment but they have not been able to supply us any so far. In terms of AstraZeneca we've not made a decision to use it in New Zealand. So while it's Medsafe approved we've not made the decision to use AstraZeneca in New Zealand.In terms of vaccine data collection at the border that is being operationalised at the moment. MIQ are asking people about their vaccine status as part of the on-boarding if you like the bringing into the country process as people come into MIQ. I haven't seen yet that compiled in a way that can be reported but that process is under way. Ultimately I think in the immediate term it's likely to be built into the—I can never remember the acronym we use in New Zealand for it but the electronic travel authority process that we've got at the moment I think we'll have a vaccine question built into that fairly soon. Again the process is under way to operationalise that. The ultimate goal of course is that it gets built into the information that's stored on the chip of somebody's passport so that when you're swiping through SmartGate or through any border anywhere around the world it's just all done automatically; that's the ultimate goal. I can't give a specific time frame on that because that's largely an international discussion that will have to happen.