To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his Answer of 3 December 2018 to Question 195079 on Pneumococcal Diseases: Vaccination, whether the modelling paper used by Public Health England to support the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation in its advice on the pneumococcal vaccination programme will be (a) made publicly available and (b) reviewed by external experts in advance of any ministerial decision being made on a change to the pneumococcal vaccination schedule.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his Answer of 24 October 2018 to Question 180205 on Pneumococcal Diseases: Vaccination, whether the expected number of cases of pneumococcal disease following the advice to change the vaccination schedule will be (a) made publicly available, (b) communicated to patient groups and (c) open to peer review in advance of any ministerial decision being made on a change to the pneumococcal vaccination schedule.

Modelling prepared by Public Health England supported the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s advice to move to a 1+1 schedule for Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine and outlines the expected impact of the change. This model has been submitted for publication in a peer reviewed journal, and will be published in due course.