Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation's (JCVI) recommendation of 4 August 2021 that covid-19 vaccinations should be extended to 16 to 17-year-olds, if he will publish a detailed briefing on the material changes that were provided by the JCVI from their position set out in the JCVI statement on COVID-19 vaccination of children and young people aged 12 to 17 years: 15 July 2021, published on 19 July 2021, that stated that the benefits of universal vaccination in children and young people below the age of 18 do not outweigh the potential risks.

The minutes of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation's (JCVI) meetings in which the COVID-19 vaccination of children and young people were discussed, including those between 15 July and 04 August 2021, will be published on GOV.UK in due course. Any additional briefing will not be published.

Minutes of the JCVI meetings can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/joint-committee-on-vaccination-and-immunisation#minutes.