Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish all Departmental documents, evidence and research in relation to the Government's mandatory covid-19 vaccination policy for (a) NHS staff and (b) social care staff.

Following consideration of the changes in the pandemic a result of the Omicron variant and the continued success of the vaccination programme, the Government confirmed on 1 March 2022 that vaccination will no longer be a condition of deployment for health and social care staff.

The clinical rationale and evidence for revoking these requirements was set out in the published consultation document, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/revoking-vaccination-as-a-condition-of-deployment-across-all-health-and-social-care/revoking-vaccination-as-a-condition-of-deployment-across-all-health-and-social-care

The Government also assessed vaccine efficacy data from the UK Health Security Agency, which is available at the following link:

www.gov.uk/guidance/monitoring-reports-of-the-effectiveness-of-covid-19-vaccination