Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 6 August (HL443), what assessment they have made of the uptake of the maternal respiratory syncytial virus vaccination programme in relation to other year-round maternal vaccination programmes so far.

Coverage of the respiratory syncytial virus maternal vaccine programme will be measured in women who were at least 28 weeks gestation at the time of the start of the programme, and after they give birth. The first coverage data for this cohort will be published in January, when uptake can be compared to uptake in other maternal programmes like pertussis.