A question tabled by Kim Leadbeater on 22-11-2024 has been answered by Andrew Gwynne.

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Question ID: 1743945
UIN: 15686
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2024-11-22
Asking Member ID: 4923
Asking Member display name: Kim Leadbeater
Asking Member handle: kimleadbeater
Asking Member Twitter reference: @kimleadbeater
Member interest: false
Question text: 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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Date answered: 2024-11-29
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Is holding answer: false
Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 1506
Answering Member display name: Andrew Gwynne
Answering Member handle: GwynneMP
Answering Member Twitter reference: @GwynneMP
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Answer text: 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...
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Answering body ID: 17
Answering body name: Department of Health and Social Care
Tweeted: true