Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 91857

Coronavirus: Vaccination

Tabled: 17 November 2025
Answered: 25 November 2025

Question

Mr Will Forster

Liberal DemocratWoking

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how frequently his Department and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation review eligibility criteria for the COVID-19 vaccination programme.

Answer

Ashley Dalton

The Government’s policy on the groups eligible for vaccination programmes, including for the COVID-19 vaccination programme, is based on the advice of the independent expert body, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). The JCVI meets three times a year, in February, June, and October.