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 8 February 2018 to Question 127076, how many stakeholders the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation consulted on its advice to implement a revised schedule for the infant pneumococcal vaccination programme.

As part of a stakeholder consultation on the childhood pneumococcal vaccination schedule, responses were sought from Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Meningitis Now, and the Meningitis Research Foundation. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation discussed the consultation responses at its meeting on 7 February and is continuing to consult on and review its advice.