Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department made of the number of (a) home carers, (b) domiciliary carers and (c) personal assistants who have been offered a covid-19 vaccination; and what steps he is taking to ensure that domiciliary carers can access covid-19 vaccinations.

The Government’s target to offer a vaccine to everyone within the top four priority groups as set out by the Joint Committee on Vaccines and Immunisation by 15 February 2021 was met. This includes home carers, domiciliary carers and personal assistants. We are working with NHS England to publish data on the vaccination of these groups.

We continue to open more vaccination centres across the United Kingdom, with 2,000 vaccination sites available. A programme of work is underway to help boost uptake in all communities, including social care workers.