Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's timescale is for clarification the eligibility of the clinically vulnerable and immunosuppressed for covid-19 booster vaccinations.

On 29 November, the Government accepted advice from the independent Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to expand the COVID-19 vaccine booster programme to include all adults over the age of 18 years old. This included advice that severely immunosuppressed individuals who have completed their primary course of three doses should be offered a booster vaccination, with a minimum of three months between these doses. Those who have not yet received their third dose may be given the third dose immediately.