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 repurposing temporary vaccination centres to deliver permanent NHS services.

Due to the success of the vaccination programme in Humber and North Yorkshire the York Askham Bar facility closed on 16 December 2022. There remains plenty of alternative provision for vaccinations at community pharmacies in the area and no specific consultation was carried out on the closure of this site.

There is no cost to the local vaccination programme of removing the site at Askham Bar, and as there is no current intention to replace this centre with another there are no further costs associated with delivery of the programme.

No assessment has been made. NHS England regional teams have been charged with identifying temporary vaccination sites and have been advised that vaccination sites should where possible use existing National Health Service infrastructure.