§ Mr. KidneyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he plans to make students pay the full cost of vaccinations required for overseas visits. [35893]
§ Ms JowellCurrently some vaccines against infectious disease are provided free for travellers as a matter of public health policy, others are not. Broadly speaking, those vaccines provided free offer protection against diseases which might be spread on return to the United Kingdom. Immunisation in these cases benefits not only the recipient but also the community at large, since each individual immunisation contributes to the general control of disease. We recognise that inconsistencies and ambiguities have arisen over the years in the arrangements for travel vaccines and the way they are interpreted and are seeking to resolve these anomalies as part of an
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UK notifications Laboratory isolates Year TB1 TB resistant to one or more anti-TB drugs2 Multi-drug resistant TB 1994 6,228 206 43 1995 6,174 212 49 1996 6,238 241 60 1997 36,430 not available yet not available yet 1 Annual Abstract of Statistics. 2 Includes multi-drug resistant cases. 3 Provisional; it is usual for the final figure to be lower than the provisional figure. Sources:
Scottish Health Service Health Service Common Services Agency; Department of Health and Social Services (Northern Ireland); Office for National Statistics and Public Health Laboratory Service.
§ Mr. LoveTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of tuberculosis have been recorded in each regional health authority in each of the last 10 years. [36169]
§ Ms JowellThe information requested is in the table.
ongoing, internal review. It would be wrong to pre-empt any recommendations the review might make but it will take into consideration data from a number of sources and bear in mind advice we receive from a wide cross-section of interest groups, including the views expressed by student unions.