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Shingles: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the equity of access to the shingles vaccine.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
2 Sept 2025
Answer
5 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the equity of access to the shingles vaccine.

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 5 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    Previously, the shingles vaccine was available to people turning 65 and 70 years old, up until their 80th birthday, and to severely immunosuppressed individuals aged 50 years old and over.As of 1 September 2025, approximately 300,000 more people have beco...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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