Pneumococcal Diseases: Vaccination

(asked on 26th February 2018) - View Source

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, whether his Department has made an assessment of the compliance of the consultation carried out by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation with the Cabinet Office’s guidance on consultation principles; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 6th March 2018

The Cabinet Office’s guidance “Consultation Principles 2016”, can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/consultation-principles-guidance

It provides guidance to government departments on conducting consultations. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is not a Government department, it is an independent Departmental Expert Committee.

The JCVI’s Code of Practice allows it to decide to consult stakeholders who submitted evidence on its interim advice for a short period before reaching a final position. The JCVI’s advice is used by the Government to inform, develop and make evidence-based policy relating to the United Kingdom’s vaccination programmes. The JCVI is best placed to carry out consultation about the evidence upon which it bases its advice and to identify who to consult in order to inform this.

The JCVI is currently consulting on and reviewing its proposed advice about a change to the UK’s childhood pneumococcal conjugate vaccine schedule. It will agree its final advice at a future Committee meeting after considering consultation responses.

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