Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of cases of invasive pneumococcal disease which were preventable in each of the last five years.

Data for England and Wales are analysed six months after the end of the reporting year based on laboratory confirmed reports of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and the results of serotyping.

The data provided below relates to the total number of IPD cases in England and Wales for all ages up to June 2013 with serotypes that are in the current Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine-13 (PCV-13) vaccine recommended in the childhood schedule and which are potentially preventable. PCV-13, which was introduced in 2010, is routinely offered to children aged two, four and 12 months.

Number of IPD cases for all ages, up to June 2013: