Patricia Gibson: To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will meet with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance to discuss UK support for global child vaccination.
Lord Douglas-Miller: ...are supported by a large cadre of expertise—of international standard reference laboratories and innovative research programmes. Research on new diagnostics, vector-borne diseases and veterinary vaccine technology, are just some examples. Indeed, our globally respected scientists at the Animal and Plant Health Agency require world-class facilities. I was delighted to see first-hand on a...
Penny Mordaunt: ...for a debate. He knows that he can secure a debate on that subject, because he has just recently done so. I will also just emphasise that there is no evidence linking excess deaths to the covid-19 vaccine. Analysis from the Office for National Statistics, published in August last year, shows that people who have had a covid-19 vaccine have a lower mortality rate than those who have not...
Preet Kaur Gill: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help tackle MMR vaccine disinformation; and what estimate she has made of the number of measles cases by (a) region, (b) local authority, (c) socioeconomic group and (d) ethnic background in the last five years.
Nia Griffith: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans her Department has to make this winter's Covid-19 vaccine available for purchase.
Baroness Merron: My Lords, over the past decade, we have seen the take-up of immunisation decrease. Particularly worrying is the great disparity between white Britons receiving the flu vaccine, where coverage is 83.6%, and black Britons at just 52.2%. In anticipating the RSV immunisation programme, how do the Government plan to address vaccine hesitancy, particularly in the black community?
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton: ...the United Nations in that category. We should use what we have and make it work as well as we can, but we should also look at new institutions when there is a specific problem, such as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which does amazing work that we should get behind. I am a practical conservative; I do not have an all-encompassing, global set of rules that we must abide by. Let us take what...
Alex Davies-Jones: ...in the media that the UK is in the grip of a sudden spike in measles. Health officials have had to declare the outbreak a national incident, and the surge has been directly linked to a decline in vaccine uptake as a result of a rise in health disinformation from anti-vax conspiracy theories. That causes real-world harm and it needs to be addressed. Misinformation causes anxiety and fear...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: ...temperature decreases, it does have an impact on respiratory issues. And that's one of the reasons why it's disappointing to see that more people haven't taken the opportunity to take up the flu vaccine. Just in terms of who has responsibility, we're quite clear that there is responsibility across Government to plan and to consider health, and that's why at the moment there is a...
Mark Drakeford: I thank Huw Irranca-Davies for that supplementary question, Llywydd, and, of course, he is right that the only way in which we are able to deliver this highly effective vaccine is through a partnership between the NHS and local government. If you think of the original question I was asked, which was about monitoring the effectiveness of decisions, I'm very happy to write to Tom Giffard on...
Andrew Bridgen: ...in excess deaths will stop any time soon; in fact, I think it will continue and that the concern from our constituents will only escalate. The Minister talked about the elephant in the room: the vaccine harms. It is that bad, and it is going to get that bad, that apparently even the elephant in the room has died suddenly. The Minister could sort all this out if her Department were to tell...
Christopher Chope: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of the claimants to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme for disability caused by the Covid-19 vaccinations received their first vaccine in (a) January to March 2021, (b) April to June 2021 and (c) July to September 2021.
Christopher Chope: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) claims to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme for disability caused by the Covid-19 vaccines and (b) applications for mandatory reversals to such claims, have been outstanding for more than (i) 18 months, (ii) 12 months and (iii) six months.
John Spellar: ...reactors for the Royal Navy and has done for many decades. Meanwhile, the formidable American political industrial machine is hoovering up customers around the world. Can we not learn from the vaccine taskforce how to accelerate process while maintaining safety? Will he now get a move on so that we can build British modular nuclear reactors using British workers?
the Earl of Leicester: My Lords, on 24 October, the DHSC published a statement in response to concerns expressed in the other place. It said: “There is no evidence linking excess deaths to the COVID-19 vaccine”. I suspect my noble friend the Minister will reconfirm that. But, to put the matter to rest, can he undertake to promptly publish an explanation of the data or research on which the department has...
Maria Caulfield: There are no plans to review the age criteria for the expansion of the shingles programme. The current policy to offer shingles vaccine to anyone who turned 65 or 70 years old on or after 1 September 2023 as well as to anyone aged 50 years old and over who is at higher risk of serious complications has significantly expanded this already successful programme. The phased roll-out to move the...
Maggie Throup: ...contents of clause 1 shows that the Government are on the side of business. Ahead of the autumn statement last year, 200 businesses—including AstraZeneca, which was so instrumental in the covid vaccine roll- out, and Toyota, a major employer of many of my constituents—wrote a joint letter to my right hon. Friend the Chancellor asking for the 1 April 2026 expiry date to be removed, so...
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: ...We have also long funded the Medicines for Malaria Venture, whose anti-malarial drugs are estimated to have averted nearly 14 million deaths since 2009. There is further cause for optimism from new vaccines. As colleagues have mentioned, in October the WHO recommended the second ever malaria vaccine, R21. In November, just before Christmas, the first consignment of the RTS,S vaccine was...
Daisy Cooper: ...all rising rapidly. A strong public health intervention by the Government could have prevented that from happening. When will the Government get serious about public health interventions such as vaccine uptake, air filtration and protecting the immune compromised to stop people getting so ill so often for so long?
Maria Caulfield: The Department monitors and drives vaccine coverage in the United Kingdom, prepares the National Health Service, and tests the ability to respond to a potential outbreaks. In January 2024, we will be running a national multi-agency exercise to assess the system-wide preparedness to respond to a large measles outbreak at a regional and national level. National measles guidance has been...