Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding was allocated by his Department to vaccination programmes in each of the last five years.

The immunisation programme is demand-led and the Department does not allocate a fixed budget.

Public Health England receives funding to support the delivery of routine vaccination programmes in England.

As part of the NHS Mandate, NHS England receives funding to commission a range of public health services including routine vaccination programmes. NHS England meets the cost of administering vaccines and also pays a prescribing fee and reimburses the cost of those vaccines that are locally procured by general practitioners and pharmacies.