Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2022 to Question 113157 on Meningitis: Vaccination, what steps his Department has taken to monitor the MenB vaccination programme in the context of the rising case numbers of meningitis B.

The UK Health Security Agency uses general practice level data to monitor the performance of the MenB vaccination programme. Once validated, this data is analysed and used to inform efforts to increase uptake and address any inequalities which could impact case numbers.