Question follow-through · 35120
Streptococcus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation on the (a) development and (b) future rollout of a Group B Streptococcus vaccine.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 7 Mar 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Department has had with the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation on the (a) development and (b) future rollout of a Group B Streptococcus vaccine.
6 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has identified that maternal vaccine products to protect infants against group B streptococcus (GBS) are currently in development. A sub-committee of the JCVI will be stood up to evaluate the bene...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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