| Heading: |
Shingles: Vaccination |
| Question ID: |
1752354 |
| UIN: |
21926 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-03 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5339 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Danny Beales
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| Asking Member handle: |
DannyBeales
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@DannyBeales
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make shingles vaccinations available to all people aged over 65. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-01-08 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1506 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Gwynne
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| Answering Member handle: |
GwynneMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@GwynneMP
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| Answer text: |
Shingles vaccination was originally routinely offered as part of the national immunisation programme to those aged 70, using the Zostavax vaccine. In 2019, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommended that the programme should be... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |