§ Mr. HarveyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Taunton (Jackie Ballard) of 3 April 2000,Official Report, column 349W, on MMR vaccines, if he will provide the (a) current and (b) projected total costs of meningitis C vaccine purchased by the NHS as part of the current vaccination programme. [123166]
§ Yvette Cooper[holding answer 5 June 2000]The cost of vaccine purchase is commercially confidential. However, at the end of the programme we hope to be able to give an aggregate cost for the whole programme including vaccine purchase, distribution, implementation, information and publicity.