Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that NHS England provide the RSV vaccine to all relevant primary care practices by 1 September 2025 so that the vaccine can be delivered in advance of the peak transmission period of the virus.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

NHS England and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) informed primary care practices on 24 June 2024 that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination would be included in the routine National Health Service-funded immunisations delivered as essential services under the GP Contract from 1 September 2024. The joint letter set out the availability and requirements for practices to order the vaccine through Immform from early August 2024. It made clear that practices are responsible for proactively inviting aged-based eligible patients for vaccination, and for providing the vaccine to eligible patients from 28 weeks of pregnancy, either opportunistically or on request. It was published and is available on the GOV.UK website, in an online only format. The UKHSA then made the RSV vaccine available for primary care practices to order through the Immform website, the usual site for ordering routine vaccine supplies, from 1 August 2024.

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have for individuals and organisations to make, and have properly acknowledged, submissions to the Child Poverty Taskforce.

Answered by Baroness Twycross - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

Tackling Child Poverty: Developing Our Strategy sets out the approach to building expertise into the child poverty strategy from across and outside Government.

This includes: engagement directly with the Child Poverty Ministerial Taskforce across the Strategy’s four core themes; working with leading organisations, charities and campaigners with child poverty expertise, such as Save the Children, IPPR, Citizens Advice, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo’s, and the National Children’s Bureau, who are bringing together their networks through roundtables or other forums to discuss the drivers and experience of child poverty, and what action is needed to reduce it; and work to hear directly from parents, carers and children.

This engagement is in addition to the large existing evidence base on child poverty in the UK and internationally, which the Taskforce is building understanding from.

As set out in the October publication referenced above, organisations and individuals are also welcome to submit specific evidence to childpoverty.secretariat@cabinetoffice.gov.uk.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 18 November (HL2386), what lessons have been learned from the 2024 distribution of respiratory syncytial virus vaccines to primary care settings; and how these lessons will be applied to ensure early availability to all eligible patients from 1 September 2025.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The RSV vaccination programmes for pregnant women (to protect newborn babies) and older adults began in England on 1st September 2024. The national campaign is running year-round. It is not a seasonal programme.

UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) procure vaccines and manage UK buffer stocks for the RSV programmes. RSV vaccines are and will continue to remain available for primary care providers to order at any time throughout the year from UKHSA’s NHS facing vaccine ordering website.

While a small number of primary care providers experienced delays with rolling out the programmes from 1st September, there have been no major issues with distributing RSV vaccines from central supply stocks. UKHSA will continue to monitor vaccine distribution, to ensure supplies remain readily available to providers so they can deliver the programmes.

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