Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he last met the Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency to discuss vaccine safety.

Our Covid-19 and flu vaccination programmes have saved tens of thousands of lives across the country and helped to ease pressure on the NHS during a challenging winter.

The UK has some of the highest safety standards in the world and the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is globally recognised for requiring high standards of quality, safety and effectiveness.

Ministers and officials correspond frequently with the Chief Executive and MHRA officials, including on the safety of medicinal products.