Question follow-through · 102550
Whooping Cough: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all pregnant women are offered the whooping cough vaccine at the optimal time in pregnancy.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all pregnant women are offered the whooping cough vaccine at the optimal time in pregnancy.
6 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2026
Answer published
All pregnant women are offered the whooping cough vaccination in every pregnancy, around the time of the mid-pregnancy scan, usually 20 weeks, and ideally before 32 weeks, via midwifery in the community or their general practice.The Department is working ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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