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Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination

Commons · Question 44823 · Tabled 7 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 22 Apr 2025

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Asked by Maya Ellis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2025 to Question 36961, whether there is a licensed direct infant immunisation for respiratory syncytial virus; and if he will make an assessment of the potential

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 22 Apr 2025

The Government’s decisions on who to offer immunisations to, and which products are suitable, are based on expert advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).In June 2023 the JCVI advised, for infant protection against the respi...