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Written Question
Meningitis: Vaccination
Thursday 26th March 2015

Asked by: Frank Dobson (Labour - Holborn and St Pancras)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he first contacted GSK about the price of the meningitis B vaccine.

Answered by Jane Ellison

Negotiations for the supply of the meningococcal B vaccine, Bexsero commenced on 11 March 2015. Since then, there has been contact between GSK and the Department.

Written Question
Meningitis
Thursday 26th March 2015

Asked by: Frank Dobson (Labour - Holborn and St Pancras)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children died of meningitis B in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Answered by Jane Ellison

The table below shows the confirmed number of deaths from meningitis and septicaemia caused by meningococcal B in children aged up to and including 14 years of age in England and Wales for the last five years for which figures are available (2009 to 2013) sourced from enhanced surveillance conducted by Public Health England.

Age

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

Total

31

26

26

14

10

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Feb 2015
Francis Report: Update and Response

"May I warn the Secretary of State not to think that because he has decided something and because a circular has been issued, something has happened? In 1998, against a lot of opposition, I insisted that the whistleblowing law should apply to the NHS. I also issued a circular banning …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 03 Feb 2015
Human Fertilisation and Embryology

"I have a sense of déjà vu, or perhaps déjà entendu. The objections that have been brought out today, and in previous discussions, about mitochondrial disease are identical to those that arose when Louise Brown was brought into this world at Oldham general hospital as a result of the risky …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 03 Feb 2015
Human Fertilisation and Embryology

"No, I will not give way, because I do not want to take up more than my allocated six minutes.

The question arises: will it be safe and will it work? The answer is that no one can make any guarantees, but that is the nature of scientific development. The …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 03 Feb 2015
Human Fertilisation and Embryology

"No, I shall not. Those people are taking risks, because if the treatment does not work, there will be those who will gloat—even, I am sad to say, Members in this Chamber. The parents are also willing to take the risks. Parents with children do not want this to happen …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 29 Jan 2015
Blood Safety (Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease)

"I start by declaring two peculiar interests. When I was Secretary of State for Health, I introduced the leucodepletion of the blood supply, which led to the establishment of the prion unit that now operates at the University college London institute of neurology in my constituency. I have therefore had …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 29 Jan 2015
Blood Safety (Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease)

"Would you like to try mine?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 29 Jan 2015
Blood Safety (Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease)

"Will the Minister confirm that none of the scientific advisers has advised her or any other Minister that the John Collinge treatment proposals would not work or ought not to be tested?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 21 Jan 2015
National Health Service

"rose—..."
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