Covid-19 vaccination for pregnant women and side effects (FOI)

​Request

A

How many pregnant women have received the COVID vaccination?

B

How many reported side effects after having the COVID vaccination?

Response

A

This information is not held.  

B

The Government of Jersey does not hold this information. The UK medicines regulator collates and reports on this and is within the public domain via Coronavirus vaccine - weekly summary of Yellow Card reporting - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied.

Articles applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.