Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, at what age babies will be eligible for vaccination with the Bexsero vaccine.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended that there should be a carefully planned national meningococcal B immunisation programme for infants, using a three dose schedule of Bexsero^®(at two, four and 12 months of age), subject to the vaccine being available at a cost-effective price .

The JCVI has also advised that when the programme starts there should be a one-off, opportunistic catch-up programme for babies aged three and four months of age who would have not had the opportunity to receive the vaccine at two months of age.