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Tuberculosis: West Midlands

Commons · Question 36733 · Tabled 10 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 17 Mar 2025

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Asked by Preet Kaur Gill

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of vaccination rates among babies and children for tuberculosis in (a) Birmingham, Edgbaston constituency, (b) Birmingham and (c) the West Midland

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Answered by Ashley Dalton, 17 Mar 2025

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) monitors trends in the level of childhood vaccination rates, including Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination, at upper tier local authority, region and country level.Official vaccine coverage estimates, for the B...