Asked by: Baroness Morrissey (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government why the overall vaccine coverage in the women giving birth data included in the COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report has not been updated since June 2022; and when they will publish the data from July 2022 onwards.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The COVID-19 vaccine coverage of women giving birth in England was last updated in the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report published in October 2022 and included women giving birth to the end of June 2022.
Pregnant women were prioritised as part of the Autumn boost with data becoming available in 2023. It is therefore planned to update coverage data in the March 2023 UKHSA COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report which will include data on women who delivered to the end of October 2022.