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 adequacy of the priority given to teachers in the covid-19 vaccination programme.

If teachers are prioritised in phase one due to their age or clinical risk factors they should be offered the vaccination. However, the Government, as advised by the JCVI, are not considering vaccinating teachers as a phase one priority at this stage. Prioritisation decisions for next phase delivery are subject to of the surveillance and monitoring data and information from phase one, as well as further input from independent scientific experts such as the JCVI. Phase two of the roll-out may include further reduction in hospitalisation and targeted vaccination of those at high risk of exposure and/or those delivering key public services.