Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to publish their vaccines strategy; and whether that strategy will include HPV vaccinations.

The forthcoming vaccine strategy will consider all vaccination programmes over the life-course and, as such, includes human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations. These HPV programmes, introduced for girls in 2008 and extended to boys in 2019, have been highly effective in reducing infections of the HPV types which cause the majority of cervical cancers (HPV16 and 18), and are expected to further reduce other cancers caused by HPV.

The vaccine strategy will be published in due course.