Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many flu vaccines were held in stock on 29 September 2020.

Overall, there is sufficient vaccine for over 30 million people to be vaccinated in England this winter.

Public Health England (PHE) secures sufficient volume of flu vaccines used in the children’s flu programme to ensure that eligible children aged less than 18 years who present for vaccination can be offered an appropriate vaccine. Information on the number of doses procured by PHE is commercially sensitive. However, by 29 September 2020, PHE had distributed over 1.3 million doses of flu vaccine to National Health Service providers of the children’s flu programme in England.