Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timescale is for (a) notifying and (b) deploying people who have made successful applications to work on the covid-19 vaccine delivery programme.

The timescales will vary due to differences in training programmes for returners, those who are still registered in their profession and those who are no longer registered.

Returners who are still registered in their profession, including the temporary register, are no longer required to complete the full statutory and mandatory package.

However, those who are not registered healthcare professionals and are applying through the national recruitment process are required to complete the full core knowledge on statutory and mandatory training as part of their application process. They may also need to complete local training which will be decided by the relevant trust.