Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the advice from Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation on the shingles vaccination programme, published in November 2024, whether expanding the programme (1) to adults aged 80 and over, and (2) to severely immunosuppressed adults aged 18 and over, will take place at the same time; and what steps they will take to implement these changes.

The Department will consider this advice when setting the policy on who should be offered shingles vaccinations and update in due course.