Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 3791

Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination

Tabled: 2 September 2024
Answered: 9 September 2024

Question

Daisy Cooper

Liberal DemocratSt Albans

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the evidential basis is for not extending the respiratory syncytial virus immunisation programme to all children under the age of one year.

Answer

There are currently no approved respiratory syncytial virus vaccines for children under the age of one year. This is a dynamic area and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, supported by The UK Health Security Agency, is continuing to keep ...

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