Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to accelerate resumption of the Monkeypox vaccination rollout.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) procured over 150,000 doses of Monkeypox vaccines, with 70,000 vials arriving in the United Kingdom by September and a further 80,000 vials in October.

The UKHSA has endorsed the use of ‘fractional dosing’, in which people aged 18 years old and over can be offered a 0.1 millilitre dose of the Jynneos smallpox vaccine, replacing the 0.5 millilitre dose typically administered. This will enable up to a five-fold increase in the number of people offered vaccination with the same level of effectiveness.  There has been no pause in the programme since it began.