Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when will the Department publish the Government’s Vaccine Strategy.

The publication of England’s national vaccine strategy has been delayed as a result of our ongoing focus on responding to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. However, the strategy has been kept under review and we are now in the process of refreshing the strategy to reflect the new models for delivery and vaccine development seen in the COVID-19 vaccine development and roll out as well as in the extended National Health Service flu programme. This work is on-going and the strategy will be published in due course.