Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of (a) schoolchildren up to Year 7, (b) pregnant women, (c) people over the age of 65, (d) people in the extremely vulnerable category, (e) people aged 50 to 65 and (f) people in the entire population have received a flu vaccination since the start of winter 2020-21.

Public Health England (PHE) publishes weekly provisional flu vaccine uptake data based on general practitioner automated returns throughout the flu season. This gives the proportions of those eligible who have been vaccinated and is available at the following link:

www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports

Monthly provisional flu vaccine uptake data, based on automated and manual returns, is also published, with the first set of monthly data released on 26 November covering the period 1 September to 31 October 2020. This data includes flu vaccine uptake in school aged children and is available at the following link:

www.gov.uk/government/collections/vaccine-uptake#seasonal-flu-vaccine-uptake:-figures

The flu vaccination programme has now been extended to those aged 50 to 64 years old from 1 December. PHE does not hold data on individuals vaccinated outside of the National Health Service programme such as through private vaccination.