Influenza: Vaccination

(asked on 28th August 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has budgeted for the 2020-21 flu vaccination campaign; how many doses have been ordered; and from (a) which companies and (b) where the vaccines will be produced.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 23rd September 2020

Public Health England’s media spend for the 2020 - 2021 influenza vaccination campaign budget is £4.15 million. The Department has agreed to procure 7.65 million additional doses of seasonal flu vaccine to date and continues to work with suppliers to increase the size of this additional stock. This is in addition to the stock that general practitioners and pharmacists have ordered directly from manufacturers for the adult programme.

The contracts for the additional vaccine are with Aventis Pharma Limited (T/A Sanofi), Mylan UK Healthcare Ltd, GlaxoSmithKline UK Ltd and Seqirus UK Ltd.

Production of the vaccine will include a number of processes. Some aspects include processing in the United Kingdom and some overseas.

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