Vaccination: Children

(asked on 28th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children who have been prevented from receiving a vaccination due to a parent withholding their consent each year since 2010.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 5th March 2019

Public Health England does not hold data on the number of children who have been prevented from receiving a vaccination due to a parent withholding their consent.

Annual vaccine coverage statistics are available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-immunisation-statistics/england-2017-18

Vaccine uptake data can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/vaccine-uptake

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