Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the Secretary of State for Health’s announcement of a ‘booster programme on steroids’ on 30 November, how long it took for the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advice of 29 November on extending the COVID-19 vaccine booster programme, including halving the time between the primary course and the booster dose, to be fully implemented; and whether the booster programme is on track to vaccinate all eligible adults in England by the end of January 2022.

On 3 December 2021, NHS England and NHS Improvement wrote to National Health Service systems on the implementation of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s advice. The National Booking System was operational on 15 December 2021. Every eligible adult in England aged 18 years old and over was offered a COVID-19 booster vaccination by the end of 2021.