Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to ensure that the performance standard for the uptake of nearly all routine pre-school vaccinations is met.

As announced in the Prevention Green Paper, Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s published in July 2019, the Government is committed to publishing a national Vaccine Strategy which will be available shortly. As part of this strategy, we are considering a wide array of options, including rolling out text reminder services to families, to increase our vaccination uptake rates and ensure they reach the 95% standard set for the majority of vaccine programmes.