Covid-19 Update Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Covid-19 Update

Fleur Anderson Excerpts
Wednesday 5th January 2022

(2 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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We will do so whenever it is safe, but as my hon. Friend knows, the measures will expire in any event on 26 January.

Fleur Anderson Portrait Fleur Anderson (Putney) (Lab)
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Parents of children who are of primary school age and have disabilities will have been disappointed not to hear in the statement about a roll-out of the vaccine for five to 11-year-olds. Two Putney parents have written to me this week, one with a child with cystic fibrosis and one with a child with Down’s syndrome. Those children have been shielding since March 2020, and they are desperate to leave shielding. They really want the vaccine but they cannot get it. Can the Prime Ministers say more about when the vaccine will be rolled out to vulnerable children aged five to 11?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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We have accepted the advice of the JCVI on at-risk five to 11-year-olds, and we will be rolling it out later this month.