To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making covid-19 vaccinations available to primary school children.
Answered on
27 January 2022
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) concluded that those aged five to 11 years old who are in a clinical risk group or who are a household contact of someone who is immunosuppressed should be offered a primary course of COVID-19 vaccination. The Government accepted this advice on 22 December 2021. The JCVI will provide further advice for all remaining primary school children following consideration of additional and emerging data.
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Department of Health and Social Care