PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Coronavirus: Vaccination (19 February 2021)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the next phase of the covid-19 vaccination programme will include people living with sufferers of blood cancers to protect that high-risk group.

Asked by:
Taiwo Owatemi (Labour)

Answer

Phase two of the vaccination programme will cover all adults under 50 years old not already included in phase one. Interim advice has been published by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation recommending an age-based approach which the Government has accepted in principle.


Answered by:
Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative)
3 March 2021

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