§ Mr. Aspinwallasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what progress have been made in the use of the anti-meningitis vaccine at present being manufactured.
§ Mrs. Currie[pursuant to her reply, 16 February 1987]: Vaccines manufactured elsewhere for A and C strains of meningococcal meningitis are not currently licensed for general supply in the United Kingdom but may be made available to doctors for individual patients. Work currently being undertaken at the Centre for Applied Microbiological Research towards development of a vaccine for the B15 strain will inevitably take some years to complete.