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.
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:
Vaccine uptake data can be found at the following link: