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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of prioritising all people with a learning disability for the covid-19 vaccination.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether prioritisation for the covid-19 vaccine within a priority group will be based on occupation; and if he will take steps to ensure that frontline workers are prioritised for that vaccination.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of (a) people with cystic fibrosis other respiratory conditions and (b) other clinically extremely vulnerable people in England have been vaccinated against covid-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what modelling his Department has undertaken on the optimal strategy for covid-19 vaccine roll-out; and when that modelling is planned to be published.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his oral contribution of 13 January 2021, Official Report, on a new vaccination confidence campaign, whether that campaign plans to issue information for people with learning diff...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to prioritise kinship carers that are not in the first nine covid-19 vaccination priority groups in the next phase of the covid-19 vaccination programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps are being taken to ensure that kinship carers are being vaccinated against covid-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Gigabit Project contracts will require the most remote locations to be connected first.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that dental surgeries can reopen safely for a full range of treatments before 21 June 2021.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he issue guidance to dentists on when they might be expected to return to normal working.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to introduce changes to the Unit of Dental Activity targets in the next financial quarter.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether dentists will be able to return to normal working practices in (a) Step 3 or (b) Step 4 of the national covid-19 roadmap.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the reintroduction of targets for NHS dental practices, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of those targets on access to urgent dental care; and what discussions he ...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of NHS activity targets for dentistry on (a) reducing the backlog of urgent care and (b) the financial viability of dental practices.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the evidential basis was for the Government's decision to delay the second dose of the covid-19 Pfizer vaccine; and what assessment he has made of the compatibility of that policy with guidanc...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of placing patients who receive in-centre haemodialysis in priority group 1 for covid-19 vaccination.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that parents and carers of children who are clinically extremely vulnerable are able to receive the covid-19 vaccine as soon as possible.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to increase the take-up rate of the covid-19 vaccination among social care staff.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is national policy that unused covid-19 vaccines within a batch allocated to prisoners in a prison setting may be used to vaccinate prison staff in that prison.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of adding people with long covid to the priority list for covid-19 vaccination.