Ministerial role
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Vaccines and Public Health)
Organisations:
Department of Health and Social Care
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
-
Maggie Throup MP
2021 to 2022
-
Jo Churchill MP
2019 to 2021