Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide local public health teams with flexibility to co-ordinate vaccine rollout with risk levels in local areas.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s guidance issued on 2 December highlighted that implementation should also involve flexibility in vaccine deployment at a local level with due attention to mitigating health inequalities, such as might occur in relation to access to healthcare and ethnicity.