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Written Question
Coronavirus: Vaccination
Friday 13th January 2023

Asked by: Maggie Throup (Conservative - Erewash)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage by cohort of (a) people aged 50 to 64, (b) people aged 65 to 74, (c) people aged 75 and over, (d) pregnant women, (e) people aged 5 and over and at high risk from covid-19 due to a health condition or a weakened immune system, (f) people aged 5 and over who live with someone who has a weakened immune system, (g) people aged 16 and over and who are carers, either paid or unpaid, (h) people living or working in a care home for older people and (i) frontline health and social care workers who had taken up the offer of a free covid-19 booster vaccination by (A) 30 November 2022 and (B) 31 December 2022.

Answered by Maria Caulfield

The information requested is not held. However, the following table shows the booster uptake in age group from 50 years old to 90 years old and over by 30 November 2022 and 31 December 2022.

Age GroupBooster uptake 30 November 2022 (%)Booster uptake 31 December 2022 (%)

50-54

years

old

38.341.8

55-59

years

old

48.551.5

60-64

years

old

58.160.8

65-69

years

old

70.171.6

70-74

years

old

77.578.7

75-79 years old

80.882.1

80-84

years

old

81.282.5

85-89

years

old

80.782.2

90+

years

old

77.979.9

Source: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations?areaType=nation&areaName=England

Data on vaccine uptake in pregnant women is published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) in the Vaccine Surveillance Report, data is available up to June 2022. Of women who gave birth in June 2022, 67.3%, 24,933 of 37,037, had received 2 doses of the vaccine before they gave birth.

The National Health Service publishes data on the total number of people who have had an Autumn Booster dose to date, 12 January for Health Care Workers, immunosuppressed and those at risk in the age bracket, of five years old to 49 years old. Individuals identified as carers in their general practitioner record were included in this cohort but from 1 December 2022 carers are no longer included.

UKHSA publish monthly reports on seasonal influenza and COVID-19 vaccine uptake in frontline healthcare workers. Data published to the end of November 2022 showed that in 165 NHS Trusts providing a return, 338,602 frontline healthcare workers had received a COVID vaccine since 1 September 2022, an uptake of 36.3 %.

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