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 publish the Government’s vaccine strategy.

The publication of England’s national vaccine strategy has been delayed as a result of our ongoing focus on responding to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. However, it has been kept under review and we are now in the process of refreshing the strategy to reflect changes brought by the pandemic, as well as the inclusion of new developments from the COVID-19 vaccine and the extended National Health Service flu programme. This work is ongoing and the vaccine strategy will be published in due course.