Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to ensure adequate supplies of pertussis vaccine in the context of the rise in instances in the Czech Republic.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) centrally procures and manages the United Kingdom’s supply of the pertussis vaccine, for the routine national immunisation programmes. Due to the stockpiles maintained in the UK for the national programme, there is good supply available of all pertussis-containing vaccines for the routine immunisation programmes.