Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has made of the potential merits of using the chronic respiratory flu vaccination list for the purposes of rolling out a covid-19 booster vaccination.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) considering whether to advise a COVID-19 vaccine booster programme whether a potential programme should align with the groups which will receive the flu vaccination. The JCVI will issue advice in due course.