Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has to include nannies in the same covid-19 vaccination phase as (a) teachers and (b) other key workers.

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