Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has made of the potential change in the number of cases of pneumococcal disease that will result from its advice to reduce a dose in the national infant pneumococcal programme from a 2+1 to a 1+1 schedule; and if he will publish the modelling used for that estimate.

The modelling prepared by Public Health England which supported the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation recommendation to move to a 1+1 schedule for Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine will be submitted for publication in a peer reviewed journal in 2018.

The modelling paper will include all relevant estimates around the expected number of cases following the recommended change to the schedule.