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HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsThe best way for parents and families to make that decision is through the tried and tested process of the school age vaccination programme, and through schools sharing…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsThe right hon. Gentleman is quite right. A number of children with special educational needs would have been vaccinated already, because they would have come under the earlier…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsThe important thing to remember is that the JCVI’s advice was very much predicated on what it was clinically qualified to look at. It was its recommendation to the chief medical…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsI thank my hon. Friend for his important question. The deemed carer for that child will be requested to give that consent.13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsThe Government have taken copious legal advice on this issue. I remind the House that on the rare occasions when there is a difference of opinion and a parent withholds consent…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsI remind the hon. Gentleman of the answers I gave earlier on consent. Parental consent will be sought, and the school-age vaccination programme is very well equipped to do that.…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsI am grateful for the hon. Lady’s support for tonight’s decision. The Department for Education is rolling out, I think, 300,000 carbon dioxide monitors. It is very important that…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his important question. He is right to identify that this is a sensitive issue, which is why it was right for the Joint Committee on…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his support, for his points about guidance to the parents and of course to the children, and for his points about the long-term…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsI am grateful for my hon. Friend’s important question. As we now accept the recommendation from the chief medical officers of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, it is…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsI am grateful, Mr Speaker. With your permission, I would like to make a statement on our vaccination programme against covid-19. We know that vaccinations are our best defence…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsThe hon. Lady asked a number of questions that I will try to address in order. She asked about the JCVI’s remit, which was very much around what it is clinically qualified to…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsThere will be no question of discriminating in any way between vaccinated and unvaccinated children. Vaccinations are voluntary and will remain so.13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsI am grateful for my hon. Friend’s important question, and I thank her for the work she has done and continues to do on the vaccination programme. All I would say to her is that I…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsI am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s question, although I think there is an inherent unfairness in his final few words. The whole House, indeed the nation, would agree that this…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsI am grateful for my right hon. Friend’s important question. We have received interim advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which we have published, and…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsI am grateful for the hon. Member’s question. He raises an important issue, and he has raised it with me in the MPs briefings as well. One thing we continue to do is to have the…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsOur regulator has only regulated the vaccines for 12 to 15-year-olds. I reiterate the point that the school-age vaccination programme and the infra-structure we have is very well…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsI am grateful for my right hon. Friend’s really important question. I want to spend a few seconds explaining this to the House, because it is really important. He mentioned that…13 Sept 2021HANSARD Covid-19 Vaccinations: 12 to 15-year-oldsI am grateful for the right hon. Member’s question. Actually, quite the opposite is the case. First, he will know that school bubbles have gone. The school-age vaccination…13 Sept 2021