Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when 16 and 17 year olds will be able to book their second covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement.

On 15 November, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advised that all 16 and 17 year olds should be offered a second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine 12 weeks after their first dose. The Government accepted this advice. Second vaccination doses for this cohort were made available from 22 November. Any 16 and 17 year olds previously categorised as ‘at risk’ will continue to be offered a second dose eight weeks after their first dose. For those in this age group who have had previous COVID-19 infection, the second vaccine dose should be given 12 weeks or more following the first vaccine dose, or 12 weeks following a positive COVID-19 test result, whichever is later.