Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Vaccines and Public Health)

Responsibilities

The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Vaccines and Public Health leads on the following policy areas:

  • COVID-19 vaccines
  • health improvement
  • levelling up
  • prevention
  • immunisation and screening
  • UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA):
    • Test and Trace
    • emergency preparedness
    • infectious diseases
    • environmental health
  • abortion
  • global health security
  • lead minister for crisis response
  • sponsorship of PHE (until Oct 2021), FSA, UKHSA

Previous holders of this role

  1. Maggie Throup

    2021 to 2022

  2. Jo Churchill

    2019 to 2021