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Exclusive: Ministers will tomorrow discuss a proposal drawn up by the Cabinet Office to introduce vaccine and testing certification, for when international travel is allowed again.

If approved at the COVID-O meeting, responsibilities will be divvied up between government departments:

DFT to set up certification infrastructure, Cabinet Office to to lead on formal engagement with other countries and international organisations.

NHS will also be told to make sure people can access their vaccine status for outbound travel.

I’m told Dominic Raab has signed off on the proposal - something an ally of the foreign secretary did not deny.

A government insider tells me there is "nervousness" about about when such a system will even be announced publicly, let alone rolled out for use.

Over the weekend, the vaccines minister told @SophyRidgeSky when asked if the government was looking to create immunity passports: "No, we're not."

@SophyRidgeSky A briefing paper prepared ahead of the COVID- O meeting tomorrow says: "We should not set even speculative timelines on when this may change border measures."

Full story here:

news.sky.com/story/covid-19…

Labour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas Symonds backs the proposal.

He tells Sky News: "I do think there should be preparation for looking at methods of safe international travel of course, and there is a precedent for this in terms of immunisation certificates."

Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi tells @SophyRidgeSky: "If people need to be able to demonstrate they’ve had a vaccine, their data is held by the national vaccine and immunisation system, and you have to be able to make that data available to people if they require it."