Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the priority of care home residents for the covid-19 vaccine; and when residents will be contacted.

Deliveries of both Oxford/Astra Zeneca and Pifizer/BioNTech vaccines to large (over 50 beds), medium (25-49 beds) and small (under 25 beds) care homes are underway. As set out in the COVID-19 vaccines delivery plan, published on 12 January 2021, it is our ambition to offer the vaccine to all care home residents and staff in the more than 10,000 care homes in England for older people by the end of January. The delivery plan is available at the following link.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-covid-19-vaccines-delivery-plan