Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) covid-19 testing staff and (b) all covid-19 vaccinators are included in the covid-19 vaccination priority group of frontline health and social care workers.

Testing staff who work at sites for symptomatic members of the public where assisted tests are carried out are eligible to be prioritised for a vaccine. They will be considered frontline healthcare workers as advised by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). Laboratory staff and those at sites for asymptomatic testing are not considered frontline healthcare workers and therefore will not be eligible for early vaccine prioritisation.