Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of levels of immunity from covid-19 after two doses of vaccine among people who are immunosuppressed.

Vaccine responses in individuals in clinical risk groups after one and two doses is being monitored by Public Health England in collaboration with the Royal College of General Practitioners’ Research and Surveillance Centre and data will be published in due course.

Virus Watch, supported by NHS Test and Trace, provides information regarding patients’ antibodies, including immunocompromised patients as part of their cohort. The data suggests some protection against COVID-19 but is only one measure of protection and does not look at cellular immunity which may be more important in terms of long-term immunity.