Question follow-through · 62067
Chickenpox: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to make the NHS chickenpox vaccination available to all children.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 1 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to make the NHS chickenpox vaccination available to all children.
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Government is considering the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s recommendation, published in November 2023, to introduce a varicella, also known as chickenpox, programme into the immunisation schedule for children.It is important that ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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