Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department are taking to learn from best practice used during (a) the Covid-19 vaccination programme and (b) the response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The United Kingdom’s vaccination programme, from research and development of vaccines against COVID-19 to the deployment to over 93% of the adult population aged 12 years old and over (as of 7 June 2022), has been one of the most successful and effective initiatives in the history of UK science and public administration. The Government is taking steps to learn from the best practice used during this programme.

The Centre for Pandemic Preparedness within the UK Health Security Agency is working with partners in Government, academia and industry to understand the findings from evaluation of COVID-19 policies and exercises to identify lessons we can learn from for future incidents. We will also review the evidence base underpinning different policies and identify gaps.