diff --git a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/VEP/Constants.pm b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/VEP/Constants.pm
index 7355d9037..e4542082a 100644
--- a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/VEP/Constants.pm
+++ b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/VEP/Constants.pm
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ use warnings;
 use base qw(Exporter);
 
 our $VEP_VERSION     = 104;
-our $VEP_SUB_VERSION = 1;
+our $VEP_SUB_VERSION = 2;
 
 our @EXPORT_OK = qw(
   @FLAG_FIELDS
diff --git a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/VEP/OutputFactory/JSON.pm b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/VEP/OutputFactory/JSON.pm
index 1d2f09a15..56fc77694 100755
--- a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/VEP/OutputFactory/JSON.pm
+++ b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/VEP/OutputFactory/JSON.pm
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ my %NUMBERIFY_EXEMPT = (
   'gene_id' => 1,
   'gene_symbol' => 1,
   'transcript_id' => 1,
+  'SYMBOL' => 1, # 'SYMBOL' is the gene symbol from SpliceAI plugin
 );
 
 my @LIST_FIELDS = qw(