Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to include people paralysed with spinal cord injuries and who have not received a vaccine in the second phase priority vaccination groups.
Prioritisation for phase two has not yet been decided. However the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s (JCVI) interim advice recommends an age-based approach, which the Government has accepted in principle.
The JCVI has advised that phase two will include all adults under 50 years old who were not included in phase one, starting with the oldest adults first. The JCVI’s interim advice has not indicated that, as a group, persons paralysed with spinal cord injuries are at higher risk from COVID-19 and therefore they have not been prioritised for the COVID-19 vaccine programme. Final advice on phase two will be published by the JCVI in due course.