Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve awareness and education of cytomegalovirus among parents and children.

Public Health England's Start4Life Information Service for Parents includes content on hygiene behaviours designed to help prevent the transmission of cytomegalovirus and links to further information on the condition. Advice includes how parents can keep their babies safe by following basic hygiene rules, with particular emphasis on handling nappies, and provides guidance on instilling hygiene behaviours in young children, for example by making hand washing part of their everyday routine.

General information about the signs and symptoms of cytomegalovirus is also available on the NHS Choices website at:

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Cytomegalovirus/Pages/Causes.aspx