Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish a vaccine strategy.

The publication of England’s national Vaccine Strategy has been delayed as a result of the Department’s ongoing focus on responding to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic.

However, the Vaccine Strategy has been kept under review and is in the process of being refreshed to reflect the changed landscape the pandemic has brought, including new developments from the COVID-19 vaccine and extended National Health Service flu programme.