Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of placing people with learning disabilities in a higher covid-19 vaccination priority category.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised that those with severe and profound learning disabilities and those with learning disabilities residing in residential care, should be offered the vaccine as part of priority group six. Those with a wide range of neurological conditions have also been advised to be vaccinated in this group.

In addition, on 24 February, it was clarified that everyone on their general practitioner’s learning disability register will be invited for vaccination as part of priority group six.