Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making covid-19 vaccinations available to primary school children.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) concluded that those aged five to 11 years old who are in a clinical risk group or who are a household contact of someone who is immunosuppressed should be offered a primary course of COVID-19 vaccination. The Government accepted this advice on 22 December 2021. The JCVI will provide further advice for all remaining primary school children following consideration of additional and emerging data.