Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to make it easier for parents to access vaccination services for their children.

As announced in the June 2019 Prevention Green Paper, Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s, the Government is committed to publishing a Vaccine Strategy, which considers a range of actions to address access to vaccination services as an important factor in improving vaccine uptake.

In addition, the NHS Long Term Plan committed to a fundamental review of general practitioner (GP) vaccination and immunisation standards, funding and procurement, alongside a review of GP access. Interim findings of this work were published on 25 October and are being fed into the ongoing GP contract negotiations.