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 including (a) teachers and (b) police officers as frontline workers for the purposes of prioritisation in the roll out of the covid-19 vaccine.

For phase two of the vaccination programme, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation published its interim advice setting out that the most effective way to minimise hospitalisations and deaths is to continue to prioritise people by age, not occupation. Age is assessed to be the strongest factor linked to mortality, morbidity and hospitalisations.