Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answers of 17 January 2022 to Question 101772 and 13 January 2022 to Question 100595 respectively, what the Government's strategy is for providing long term protection against covid-19 other than through booster vaccination, in the context of the reduction of booster vaccine efficacy after 10 weeks.

We will set out the plan for the future management of COVID-19 in due course, informed by the latest scientific evidence available. This will consider the future potential requirement for non-pharmaceutical interventions, possible future vaccination programmes and other therapeutic modalities as part of the overall policy to provide long term protection against the virus.