Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that adults with caring responsibilities can access covid-19 vaccination with no additional impact on their care costs and minimal impacts on their time.

Priority access for COVID-19 vaccinations has been provided for carers and those they care for. In phase one of the vaccination programme, carers were included in priority cohorts four and six invited for vaccination in January and February 2021. In December 2021, the National Health Service directed vaccination centres to allow priority queuing at walk-in centres for carers and those they care for.