Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that people who move into a higher covid-19 vaccination priority group get swift access to an appointment.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) regularly reviews the evidence on clinical risk and prioritisation and may periodically advise adding additional individuals to be vaccinated within or alongside one of the nine priority groups. Where this happens the vaccination programme booking systems are altered to ensure such individuals are able to book appointments in line with their new priority grouping. The fact that they have been prioritised is communicated publicly as well as to the National Health Service including General Practitioners, to maximise awareness and ensure individuals are identified and encouraged to take up the offer of prioritised vaccination.