Coronavirus Vaccine

Gagan Mohindra Excerpts

Wednesday 2nd December 2020 Commons Chamber

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Rosie Winterton)]

Order. I want to get everybody in but we are getting a little behind schedule, so I ask for succinct questions.

[Mr Gagan Mohindra (South West Hertfordshire) (Con)]

I congratulate the Secretary of State and our Government on their brilliant work to make sure that we were the first country in the world to have a vaccine approved.

It would be worth the Secretary of State’s repeating the criteria and pecking order for the 800,000 doses. A colleague of mine, Councillor Bentley, always says that people need to hear something at least eight times before they embed it, so will the Secretary of State take this opportunity to repeat it?

[Matt Hancock]

Yes, absolutely. We will follow a clinical prioritisation according to need. That starts with those who are resident in care homes and their carers, the over-80s and NHS staff, and then essentially comes down the age range, including those who are clinically extremely vulnerable. Through the experience of the past 10 months, we know, sadly, who is most likely to die of covid, and they are the people we will try to get to first.