Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, following completion of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) pneumococcal sub-committee's review of pneumococcal disease and the main JCVI meeting of June 2015, they will implement any recommendations made by the JCVI on the pneumococcal disease immunisation programme from winter 2015–16.

The Secretary of State has not requested a recommendation about immunisation against pneumococcal disease from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) under the terms of the Health Protection (Vaccination) Regulations 2009.

We will consider carefully any advice received from the JCVI about immunisation against pneumococcal disease in due course.