Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to enable individuals who are not eligible for the autumn 2023 covid booster vaccine to purchase the vaccine.

The Government is guided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) on eligible cohorts for vaccination. For COVID-19 the JCVI has advised that the objective for the current autumn campaign is to continue to focus the offer of vaccination on those at greatest risk of serious disease and who are therefore most likely to benefit from vaccination.

As is the case for other private healthcare, the emergence of a private market for COVID-19 vaccines in the United Kingdom is for suppliers and private healthcare providers to decide and agree on.