{"value":{"id":1361972,"askingMemberId":4471,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2021-10-20T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2021-10-22T00:00:00","uin":"59857","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the efficacy level has been of the flu vaccine since 1 January 2021.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4447,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2021-10-28T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Vaccine effectiveness varies between seasons and is dependent on the strains in circulation. Due to extremely low levels of circulating influenza during the 2020 to 2021 season, certain aspects of surveillance were not possible, including virus characterisation and vaccine effectiveness estimates.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Influenza: Vaccination","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1361972","method":"GET"}]}