Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) provided additional advice to the Welsh Government on the cost-effectiveness of further vaccinating 50–64-year-olds to inform their decision to extend eligibility for 2022-3; and if so, whether that advice was made available to the UK Government.

The Welsh Government’s decision on the priority cohorts for inclusion in the 2022/23 annual flu vaccination programme was based on existing advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). No additional advice was provided by the JCVI. Health departments in the devolved administrations are made aware of the JCVI’s advice through their designated observers, who attend JCVI and sub-committee meetings and receive committee papers. While the JCVI do not provide separate advice to the devolved administrations as a matter of course, it can do so if specifically asked.