Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to monitor the effectiveness of different covid-19 vaccines in different age groups.

Public Health England (PHE) is monitoring vaccine effectiveness in all eligible groups.

PHE has published an assessment on vaccine effectiveness in adults aged 70 years and older and in healthcare workers, which is available at the following link:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.01.21252652v1

As the COVID-19 vaccination programme continues in younger age groups, vaccine effectiveness estimates in these age groups will be published.