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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Influenza: Vaccination (30 October 2020)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on meeting the target of administering 30 million flu vaccinations during the 2020-21 flu season.

Asked by:
Sarah Owen (Labour)

Answer

Public Health England collect provisional weekly data on flu vaccine uptake levels in key cohorts, including those aged 65 years and over, at risk groups, pregnant women and children aged 2 and 3. The weekly reports are available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports

Monthly data on the number of people who have been vaccinated from these cohorts, together with monthly data on uptake in healthcare workers and school age children, Reception to Year 7, is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/vaccine-uptake#seasonal-flu-vaccine-uptake:-figures

The first monthly data was published on 26 November on the number of people who have been vaccinated up to 31 October 2020.

It is still very early in the flu season to provide an assessment on overall uptake.


Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
9 December 2020

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