Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will request that the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation carry out a full review of the pneumococcal immunisation programme which includes any effect that changes to the infant pneumococcal vaccination programme would have on the incidence of invasive disease and community acquired pneumonia in adults.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) keeps all vaccination programmes under review. It is scheduled to start a full review of the pneumococcal immunisation programme during 2018. In considering potential schedule changes to the infant pneumococcal immunisation programme, the JCVI has reviewed all available information on pneumococcal infections nationally across all ages.