Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation plans to publish a consultation following the conclusion of the Pneumococcal Sub-committee's review of the adult pneumococcal vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement.
As set out in the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) Code of Practice, the JCVI will consider the advice of the Sub-committee and may decide to issue an interim statement for a short period of consultation with those stakeholders who submitted evidence that informed the Committee’s advice.
The JCVI Code of Practice is available at: