Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including people in receipt of domiciliary care in their own homes in covid-19 vaccine priority group one.

Priority cohort one included residents in a care home for older adults and their carers. People who are supported by domiciliary care were prioritised in cohort four if they were categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable. They may also have been prioritised in cohort six if they have certain other health conditions which make them clinically vulnerable. Cohorts one to four also included those over 75 years old.

We have now offered a first vaccine dose to everyone in the top four priority groups.