Question follow-through · 17700
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential risks of omitting people with learning disabilities from the (a) 2025 and (b) spring 2026 covid-19 booster vaccination programme.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
- Hospices: Children · 5 Dec 2024
- NHS: Public Consultation · 5 Dec 2024
- Pharmacy · 9 Dec 2024
- Pharmacy · 9 Dec 2024
- Pharmacy: Finance · 12 Dec 2024
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential risks of omitting people with learning disabilities from the (a) 2025 and (b) spring 2026 covid-19 booster vaccination programme.
5 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Dec 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 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Hospices: Children
5 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes to employer National Insurance contributions at the Autumn Budget 2024 on children's hospices.
NHS: Public Consultation
5 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2024 to Question 16662 on NHS: Public Consultation, what the budget is for deliberative engagement by type of spend in the 2024-25 financial year.
Pharmacy
9 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Autumn Budget 2024 on community pharmacies.
Pharmacy
9 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support community pharmacies to ensure (a) financial sustainability, (b) consistency in the provision of services, and (c) dispensing of prescriptions.
Pharmacy: Finance
12 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the delay to community pharmacy funding negotiations on community pharmacies.
NHS: Staff
12 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding (a) his Department and (b) NHS England has provided for the Global Majority Fellowship Programme in the last year for which figures are available.
Palliative Care
16 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the 10-year health plan will include policies on palliative care.
Palliative Care
16 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the refreshed NHS workforce plan will include policies on the palliative care sector.
NHS: Public Consultation
17 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question 16662 on NHS: Public Consultation, what the total budget is for deliberative engagement in the 2024-25 financial year.
Social Services: Charities
17 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that fees paid by commissioners take into account changes in the costs faced by not-for-profit social care providers.
Social Services: Charities
17 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what representation not-for-profit social care providers will receive on the proposed Adult Social Care Negotiating Body.
Mental Health Services: Standards
8 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress his Department has made on meeting the Mental Health Investment Standard; and how this is reflected in the funding allocated to mental health services in the NHS.