Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will he make it his policy to not make vaccines mandatory due to the effect on trust between a clinician and their patient.

There are no plans to introduce compulsory vaccination. Regulations to make the COVID-19 vaccination a condition of deployment for any individual working or volunteering in a Care Quality Commission-regulated care home came into force on 11 November. These regulations require care home providers to deploy only those people who have received a complete course of their COVID-19 vaccination unless they are exempt. Ensuring anyone entering a care home is vaccinated, subject to specific exemptions, is the most effective way to prevent outbreaks and protect everyone who lives in, works in or visits a care home.