Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether, as part of developing a national vaccines strategy, he is making an assessment of the potential merits of (a) a national leadership forum bringing together key individuals and groups, (b) the appointment of a national Tsar to oversee the strategy and (c) new targets for adult vaccination rates.

These issues will be considered, and the vaccine strategy will be reviewed in light of the ongoing pandemic response, to reflect the legacy of investment in vaccine development from the Vaccine Taskforce and lessons from future deployment of the vaccine, to help drive up immunisation rates in the United Kingdom.