Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many prisoners are eligible for the covid-19 vaccine; and how many (a) prisoners in JCVI priority groups (i) 1-4 and (ii) 5-9 and (b) prison staff have received the first dosage of the covid-19 vaccine in England and Wales.

No specific data is centrally held regarding the number of prisoners who are eligible for the Covid-19 vaccination in the first phase of the programme. We do not centrally hold data on how many prisoners have been vaccinated in priority groups 1-9 so far.

We cannot provide information on the numbers of prison staff eligible for vaccination or vaccinated as data is not collected on vaccinations delivered broken down by occupation. NHS England publishes daily and weekly data on overall numbers of vaccinations in England, including those who have received a 1st and 2nd dose. This is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-vaccinations/