Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

What recent assessment his Department has made of the progress of the covid-19 vaccine rollout.

Due to our successful COVID-19 vaccination programme we have now delivered over 83 million doses to people in England, including 3.6 million booster and third doses to the most vulnerable since September.

This has reduced the link between case numbers and hospitalisation, preventing the National Health Service from becoming overwhelmed and provided additional protection ahead of the winter.

Over 24.3million infections have been prevented and more than 127,000 lives saved to date.