Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 4 April 2019 to Question 238305 on Vaccination, what advice the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation Healthcare Associated Infections Working Group provided on the development of better tools to estimate and quantify the potential impact of vaccines in reducing the long-term burden of antimicrobial resistance; and if he will make a statement.

Advice on the development of better tools to estimate and quantify the potential impact of vaccines in reducing the long-term burden of antimicrobial resistance has not been provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation Healthcare Associated Infections Working Group.

The Healthcare Associated Infections Working Group was formed and met in 2018 and 2019. The Working Group, or an equivalent, will be reconvened in due course once relevant vaccines progress through the vaccine pipeline.