Vaccination Strategy

Jim Shannon Excerpts
Wednesday 12th January 2022

(2 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Maggie Throup Portrait Maggie Throup
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Those who are clinically extremely vulnerable or immunosuppressed have already been offered a booster, so they have already received four doses. As I said earlier, at the end of last week the JCVI determined that at this stage it was not appropriate for others to have a booster or a fourth dose.

Jim Shannon Portrait Jim Shannon (Strangford) (DUP)
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The Titanic Exhibition Centre, which is the largest vaccination centre in Northern Ireland, is to close on Sunday 16 January. Has the Minister made an assessment, in her Department, of the impact that the closure of mass vaccination centres will have on the booster process throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?

Maggie Throup Portrait Maggie Throup
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As I understand it, the location of vaccination sites in the devolved nations is the responsibility of those nations. I can only speak for England in that regard, so the hon. Gentleman may wish to take the matter up with the Minister of Health in Northern Ireland.