There are 'no plans for a vaccine passport' to prove you have had the Covid jab.

Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said on Tuesday that there were no plans for an 'immunity passport' for people to be allowed in places such as pubs and restaurants.

His comments come after the Government’s vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi suggested hospitality and other businesses, such as cinemas and football stadiums could bar those who have not had a Covid-19 vaccine.

Speaking on BBC Breakfast and Sky News on Tuesday morning, Mr Gove said: “Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, that’s not the plan.

“What we want to do is to make sure that we can get vaccines effectively rolled out.

“I certainly am not planning to introduce any vaccine passports and I don’t know anyone else in Government...

“I think the most important thing to do is make sure that we vaccinate as many people as possible.

“Of course, individual businesses have the capacity to make decisions about who they will admit and why.

“But the most important thing that we should be doing at this stage is concentrating on making sure the vaccine is rolled out.”

On Monday, Health Minister Nadhim Zahawi, who is in charge of the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines, suggested that a so-called 'immunity passport' was being looked at to identify people who had the jab.

Mr Zahawi said that hospitality and entertainment venues may insist on seeing proof that people have had one, with Health Secretary Matt Hancock saying ministers were 'looking' at whether the hospitality sector could refuse access to those who have not taken up a Covid vaccine once it becomes available.

Mr Hancock told a press briefing: “For a long time now we’ve been looking at the questions that minister Zahawi was talking about and the question of what’s the impact on the individual in terms of what they can do.

"That’s what minister Zahawi was referring to.

"Firstly we do not plan to mandate the vaccine.

“We think that by encouraging the uptake of the vaccine we will get a very high proportion of people in this country to take up the the vaccine, because of course it protects you but it also helps to protect your loved ones and your community.”

The Health Minister said that the Government was 'looking at the technology' so people could show that they had a Covid-19 vaccine.

He said: “I think you’ll probably find that restaurants and bars and cinemas and other venues, sports venues, will probably also use that system – as they have done with the (test and trace) app.”

What do you think?

Would you be happy to provide proof you'd had a Covid-vaccine in order to go to the pub or cinema?