Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of second covid-19 vaccinations have happened within 12 weeks of the first to date.

NHS England and NHS Improvement do not currently hold centrally validated data on what proportion of second COVID-19 vaccinations have happened within 12 weeks of the first to date.

As of 19 May 2021, 20,870,453 people have received their second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The total number of second doses of a COVID-19 vaccine administered is available at the following link:

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations

On 14 May 2021, the Government accepted new advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation and announced that appointments for a second dose of a vaccine would be brought forward from 12 to eight weeks for the remaining people in the top nine priority groups who have yet to receive their second dose. This is to ensure the strongest possible protection from the virus at an earlier opportunity in response to the B1.617.2 variant of concern, first identified in India.