To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his policy is on the provision of the FluMist flu vaccine in schools; whether take-up of that vaccine by schools is voluntary; and what procedures his Department has put in place for parents who do not wish their children to be immunised with that vaccine.

The take-up of Fluenz, the children's flu vaccine, is voluntary and parents are provided with a consent form to be completed before vaccination through the schools programme.

A child who is unable to have the live attenuated influenza vaccine, for reasons other than being medically contraindicated, will continue to derive benefit from the programme by virtue of the reduction of transmission among their peers.