Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the progress of the rollout of booster jabs for covid-19.

As of 5 October 2022, over 33 million people in England had received a third primary dose or first booster dose. The deployment of the autumn booster vaccination campaign commenced on 5 September 2022. As of 11 October 2022, NHS England had delivered over 6.9 million autumn booster doses. As of 5 October, the UK Health Security Agency reports that over 38% of the total population in England aged 65 years old and over had received an autumn booster dose.