Vaccination: Children
(asked on 7th October 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children have been given a meningococcal vaccine in the last 12 months.
The UK Health Security Agency measures the coverage of vaccines against meningococcal disease. The latest figures for Cover of Vaccination Evaluated Rapidly (COVER) are for the period from April 2023 to March 2024, and meningitis ACWY (MenACWY) vaccination figures cover the period from September 2023 to August 2024.
The 2023 to 2024 annual published COVER figures at 12 months, given between eight weeks and 16 weeks, for the meningitis B vaccine are 62,0552 out of 68,1961 babies, or 91.0%. The 2023 to 2024 annual published COVER figures at two years, given at 12 months, for the haemophilus influenzae type B and meningitis C vaccine is 64,7263 out of 72,6395 babies, or 89.1%. The 2023 to 2024 annual published COVER figures at two years, given at 12 months, for the meningitis B vaccination booster is 63,7955 out of 72,6395 babies, or 87.8%. A total of 34,4062 out of 72,5289, or 47.4%, of 14-year-olds, those born between 1 September 2009 to 31 August 2010, had received the MenACWY vaccine during the 2023 to 2024 academic year. Information on the coverage of vaccines against meningococcal disease is available at the following link: