Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children (a) contracted and (b) died of meningitis B in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Public Health England collects data on laboratory confirmed cases of invasive meningococcal disease which is a major cause of bacterial meningitis in England. This does not distinguish between invasive meningococcal disease presentation as meningitis or septicaemia.
The number of invasive meningococcal B infections laboratory reports in England by age group and epidemiological year, 1998/99-2016/17 can be accessed here:
Data for 2016/17 are provisional.
Data on the number of deaths from meningitis B are not collected in the format requested.