Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review its targets for coverage and uptake of vaccines that help prevent antimicrobial resistance as a result of the Government’s new Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy, published on 24 January 2019.

Vaccines are an important tool for the prevention of infection, as highlighted in the United Kingdom Government’s 20-year vision on antimicrobial resistance, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-20-year-vision-for-antimicrobial-resistance

Uptake and assessment of coverage of new vaccines to help prevent antimicrobial resistance will be dependent on how successful research programmes for the development of new products in this area progress. This remains under constant review.