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 timeframe to administer the covid-19 vaccine to all consenting persons over the age of 50 in (a) the London Borough of Barnet and (b) the Hendon constituency.

The Government’s top priority is to ensure that everyone in cohorts one to four is offered the opportunity to receive their first dose of vaccination against COVID-19 by 15 February 2021. It will likely take until spring to offer the first dose of vaccination to the priority groups across the United Kingdom.

The Government will consider all relevant data and set out plans for phase two of vaccination once all at-risk groups have been offered their first dose of vaccine.