Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2018 to Question 129353, how much was spent in total on vaccination programmes in each of the last five years; and what the total expenditure on each individual vaccine programme was during that time period.
The following table shows expenditure on adult and childhood vaccines in each of the last five years.
| 2015/16 £’000 | 2016/17 £’000 | 2017/18 £’000 | 2018/19 £’000 |
Annual vaccine expenditure | 364,831 | 391,470 | 393,754 | 396,938 |
Source: Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts – Notes to the Accounts 12. Inventories and work in progress
Data on annual expenditure for each vaccine programme is not held centrally.