Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of regularly publicising the number of unvaccinated people being admitted to hospital with covid-19 that then requires inpatient admission to help increase the level of vaccine uptake amongst people yet to receive one.

The UK Health Security Agency publishes the vaccination status of those hospitalised on a weekly basis via its surveillance reports. This includes the number of unvaccinated people being admitted to hospital with COVID-19 resulting in overnight inpatient admission and is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccine-weekly-surveillance-reports