Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that people who are eligible for Covid-19 booster vaccinations have access to local vaccination clinics.

There are many vaccination sites available for eligible individuals including walk-in centres. We continue to do everything to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccination is convenient and easy for all who are eligible. The network of vaccination sites has been designed to deliver the expected vaccine supply at pace and ensure safe and easy access for the whole population.

Flexible delivery models such walk-in and mobile vaccination clinics have been used to increase access and convenience of the vaccination offer, particularly for those in deprived communities where ethnic minority groups tend to be overrepresented. Additionally, for those in highly rural areas, where a vaccination site may be more difficult to reach there is a standard operating procedure for roving and other mobile delivery models to go directly to these communities.

The Government has worked closely with the National Health Service to make it as easy as possible to get a vaccine, including through ‘grab a jab’ pop-up vaccine sites across the country. 99% of the population in England live within 10 miles of at least one COVID-19 vaccination site.