Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the levels of in HPV vaccine uptake among adolescent boys over the last three years; and what steps she is taking to address regional variations in coverage.

I refer the Hon. Member to vaccination coverage statistics for human papillomavirus (HPV) for males and females, available at the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/vaccine-uptake

Alongside NHS England, the UK Health Security Agency and the Department for Education, we are working to improve HPV vaccination rates for both males and females, including making it easier for parents to consent for school vaccinations; revising health education guidance in school to improve awareness of vaccination amongst both male and female students; and expanding our national vaccination communications campaign specifically to target young adults who missed routine adolescent vaccinations at school.