Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps with his EU counterparts to increase public confidence in vaccination.

Public Health England (PHE) works closely with colleagues across the European Union including the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe to optimise public confidence in vaccination.

PHE commissions two annual tracking surveys of attitudes to vaccination: the attitudes of parents of children aged under five years old, and the attitudes of parents and teenagers to vaccination to monitor confidence and inform programme development. Confidence in the programme in England is at very high levels and the vast majority of parents choose to have their children protected by vaccination.

Further information on the attitudes to vaccination surveys are available to view at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/parental-attitudes-to-vaccination-in-young-children#annual-survey-2017