Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will reinstate monthly meetings between the Vaccines Minister and health charities in the form of the patient charity vaccine roundtable.

I hosted a roundtable meeting with charities on 1 December with representatives from 19 charities, including Macmillan, the MS Society and Age UK. The next roundtable meeting is due to be scheduled for January 2022. Additionally, officials meet regularly with individual patient charities, as well as organising group briefings with expert speakers on recent Government announcements.