mark menzies. can i welcome the measures that the prime minister has laid before the house today.o are vulnerable to covid are also extremely vulnerable to seasonal flu, a disease that killed 11,000 people in the uk last year alone and is one of the biggest sources of winter pressure in the nhs. in the summer the government promised one of the flu vaccination programmes in history. can he update the house and what is being done to deliver this? yes, indeed i can. i can tell my honourable friends that the biggest flu vaccine programme is going ahead as we speak, and 30 million people will be able to have an flu jab this autumn andi will be able to have an flu jab this autumn and i thoroughly advise members to get one. there is a whiff of hypocrisy because as the prime minister and his cabinet bring in new measures to combat covid—19, he needs to tell us how expect citizens across the uk to follow his rules and laws when he and his government are openly admitting that they are willing to break international law and treaties themselves.” willing to break international law and treatie