Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the adequate availability of the HPV vaccine throughout the UK.

The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil is centrally purchased and distributed to the National Health Service across the United Kingdom by Public Health England, for the purposes of both the national HPV vaccination programme for girls, and the recently launched national HPV programme for men who have sex with men. Central stocks of vaccine are monitored and a buffer of stock is maintained, to ensure continuous supply to both programmes.