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 accessibility of covid-19 vaccines to carers supporting residents in their own homes; and what discussions is he having with home care providers on this issue.

We will continue to follow the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s (JCVI) advice and vaccinate those most at risk first and those who work closest with them - care home residents and staff, followed by people over 80 years old and health and social care workers, then other people in order of age and risk.

This includes all frontline social care workers directly working with people clinically vulnerable to COVID-19 who need care and support irrespective of where they work, whether they care for clinically vulnerable adults or children or who they are employed by.