Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to move responsibility for the funding and infrastructure support for covid-19 services in the future to (a) integrated care systems or (b) primary care.

Many services to prevent or address COVID-19 such as vaccination services and post-COVID-19 clinics are administered at a local level. NHS England and NHS Improvement’s ‘2022/23 priorities and operational planning guidance’ sets out plans to recover services. Subject to the passage of the Health and Care Bill, we expect COVID-19 services, with other clinical commissioning group functions, to be transferred to integrated care boards.