Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to disband the Covid-19 Enhanced Protection Panel.

There is no COVID-19 Enhanced Protection Panel. Those who remain at higher risk from COVID-19 remain a priority for the Government and will continue to be offered enhanced protections such as treatments, booster vaccines, free lateral flow tests and public health advice. The small internal team within the Department that provided a time limited coordinating function for activity to support this group closed on 31 March 2023. Different parts of the UK Health Security Agency, the Department and NHS England will continue to provide the enhanced protection programme of work and patients will not see any difference in the advice they receive, or their treatment.