Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to announce which at-risk groups will be eligible for the 2020 NHS flu vaccine.
The flu vaccination programme will be a critical part of preparing the United Kingdom for winter and as part of our planning should we see co-circulation of flu and COVID-19.
On 14 May we published the Annual Flu letter 2020/21 which is available at the following link:
This indicated the main groups who are eligible for free flu vaccination. Further details will be published on our plans for the flu season soon.