Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to increase the meningitis-B vaccine uptake amongst the student population.
As Meningococcal B disease is rare after the first five years of life, students are not routinely offered this vaccination. Protection against other strains which cause meningitis and septicaemia is provided through the national Men-ACWY programme delivered at ages 13 to 15 years old or in catch-up programmes at ages 19 to 25 years old.