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

  1. Maggie Throup

    2021 to 2022

  2. Jo Churchill

    2019 to 2021