Question follow-through · 25032
Vaccination: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the speed of the delivery of the school vaccination programme.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 27 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the speed of the delivery of the school vaccination programme.
22 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jan 2025
Answer published
The National Health Service is supporting catch-up efforts to return the coverage of school aged vaccination programmes back to their pre-pandemic levels. School aged immunisation service providers are commissioned to deliver a 100% offer for adolescent v...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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