Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 98170

Meningitis: Vaccination

Tabled: 8 December 2025
Answered: 5 January 2026

Question

Jessica Toale

LabourBournemouth West

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation last reviewed the cost-effectiveness model for providing the Meningitis B vaccine to teenagers; and whether his Department plans to commissi

Answer

Ashley Dalton
In 2013, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advised that the cost-effectiveness of an adolescent Meningitis B (MenB) vaccination programme would be dependent on the impact of the vaccine on protection against meningococcal carriage...

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