Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of staff working in elderly care homes in England; and how many of those staff have had a covid-19 vaccine.

The vaccination strategy, published on 13 January 2021, estimated that there are 0.4 million staff working in care homes for older adults in England.

We are working with the vaccination programme in NHS England to monitor progress on the vaccination of care home staff. NHS England now publish weekly data on the vaccination of care home staff, which is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-vaccinations/