Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he will update guidance to vaccination centres and GP surgeries, so that those who have received a third covid-19 vaccination dose and were eligible because of a condition or medication that suppressed their immune system, can receive a fourth dose as a booster dose after 12 weeks.

On 3 December updated guidance was sent to all general practitioner surgeries and vaccination sites. This sets out that severely immunosuppressed individuals who have received their primary vaccination course of three doses should be offered a fourth dose as a booster, with a minimum of three months between these doses. This guidance is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/publication/jcvi-advice-in-response-to-the-emergence-of-the-b-1-1-529-omicron-variant-next-steps-for-deployment/