Question follow-through · 98114

Meningitis: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending routine NHS vaccination against Meningitis B to teenagers and first-year university students.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
10 Dec 2025
Answer
5 Jan 2026 · 28 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 8 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending routine NHS vaccination against Meningitis B to teenagers and first-year university students.

  2. 10 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 5 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    Policy regarding vaccination programmes is based on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). The JCVI keeps all vaccination programmes under review, and the meningococcal sub-committee have met a number of times over the pas...

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