Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's estimate is of the cost of the vaccine for Meningococcal B per child who receives it; and what the annual cost of the provision of that vaccine to infants has been in each of the last five years.

The Meningococcal B (MenB) infant vaccination programme was introduced in September 2015. The precise cost of the vaccine is commercially sensitive and therefore confidential.

The annual estimated costs of delivering the MenB programme are:

Note:

These are estimates of full programme costs (including the cost of the vaccine) for England only, inclusive of VAT.