Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) Royal College of Nursing and (b) other bodies on stem cell medicine and prevention of meningitis.

The Department is in regular contact with bodies such as NHS Blood and Transplant and Anthony Nolan with regards to stem cell medicine, particularly with regards to bone marrow and umbilical cord blood transplantation.

Public Health England provides vital information on meningitis and septicaemia to parents through the Start4life Information Service for Parents email programme which reaches over 430,000 parents of 0-5 year olds across England and through our immunisation leaflets.