Question follow-through · 15686
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of including people with learning disabilities in the spring Covid-19 booster vaccination programme.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 22 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 29 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 29 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
22 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of including people with learning disabilities in the spring Covid-19 booster vaccination programme.
29 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Government is committed to protecting those most vulnerable to COVID-19 through vaccination, as guided by the independent Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). On 13 November 2024, the JCVI published advice on the COVID-19 vaccinatio...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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