Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help protect asthmatics from covid-19.

Individuals aged 12 years old and over with ‘poorly controlled asthma’, as defined in the Green Book, are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine primary course. Those aged 16 years old and above with poorly controlled asthma have now been offered a booster vaccine.

Individuals whose asthma is controlled are offered COVID-19 vaccination in line with their age cohort. People over the age of 16 years old not in a risk group have been offered two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and children aged 12 to 15 years old not in a risk group have been offered a first dose. All adults over the age of 40 years old have now been offered a booster dose. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation will continue to update its advice as new data emerges.