Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many flu vaccinations are (a) required and (b) have been ordered in the 2020-21 flu season.

Overall, there is sufficient vaccine for more than 30 million people to be vaccinated in England this winter.

General practitioners (GPs) and pharmacists are directly responsible for ordering flu vaccine from suppliers which are used to deliver the national flu programme to adults. In addition, the Department has procured over eight million additional doses of seasonal flu vaccine for the United Kingdom to ensure more flu vaccines are available this winter. GPs, trusts and community pharmacies who have exhausted their own supply are now able to order more flu vaccines from the central stock procured by the Government and these stocks have already begun arriving across the country.