Question follow-through · 84881
Shingles: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the eligibility criteria for the shingles vaccine, and what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the criteria are clearly communicated to (a)
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the eligibility criteria for the shingles vaccine, and what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the criteria are clearly communicated to (a)
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2025
Answer published
From September 2023, the routine shingles vaccination programme changed from the Zostavax vaccine to the two-dose Shingrix vaccine, to better protect individuals from the effects of shingles, provide better clinical outcomes, and reduce pressures on the h...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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