Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will work with the devolved Administrations to help ensure a consistent approach to GP item of service fees for vaccinations and immunisations for influenza and shingles.

Policy officials engage with their counterparts in the devolved administrations in relation to immunisations on a regular basis and have shared updates on the progress with NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Vaccinations and Immunisations Review, committed to in the NHS Long Term Plan.

Health is a devolved matter and in England, the Statement of Financial Entitlements, which sets out the payment structure for general practitioner-offered immunisations, is agreed between NHS England, NHS Improvement and the General Practitioners Committee of the British Medical Association. As the negotiations to agree the terms of the 2020/21 Statement of Financial Entitlements is an ongoing confidential process, we are unable to share details of this with counterparts in the devolved administrations.