Speeches by Beales.

“Is there no particular national funding for that?”

“Are you doing that as part of the gonorrhoea vaccine? What funding is available for that activity, outreach and public messaging?”

“Back to vaccinations and the gonorrhoea vaccine: what lessons have been learned from the roll-out of the mpox vaccine programme in terms of tackling equality issues? Often, in that roll-out, it was again health literate people accessing services who navigated them, booked and got their mpox vaccine. What are you doing …”

“My second question was about access to PrEP, and you have covered it quite well. In your view, digitalised access to PrEP and access to a community pharmacy are needed to address the gender-based differences in uptake and other inequalities—Kat, do you want to come in about the barriers to those changes, or are any oth…”

“Thank you.”

“Do you think the Government should set a target?”

“Is there a deadline for meeting the WHO target?”

“Stopping the further falls is positive, but I think we urgently need to get back not just to the levels we were at but to the 95% target, which is a key target for population coverage.”

“Would you agree that the strategy is not working if next year we still see further falls, or no progress in getting towards the 95% target? Is that failure? What is failure? It sounds at the moment that further falls in vaccine levels, further outbreaks, and not making any significant progress towards the 95% target ar…”

“If we see further falls in most vaccine levels next year, would you consider putting it back in NHS planning guidance?”

“It is not in the planning guidance.”

“I cannot speak for the Committee, but I would personally say that we are in a vaccination crisis in this country among children and pregnant women, which is leading to some of the tragic incidents we are seeing. In the light of this, was it a good idea to remove the WHO 95% vaccine coverage target from NHS planning gui…”

“Are you confident, Minister?”

“Are you confident that all the things you mentioned will lead to an increase in vaccination rates next year? Will we, as a Committee, be able to speak to you next year having seen an uptick in the 14 key vaccination areas?”

“We have heard about that before. Again, I come back to the fact that the NHS England strategy was launched in 2023. We have heard that there is piloting that will take place of health visitors delivering vaccines, with a possible national roll-out in 2026-27. It has been quite a number of years, and we are still talkin…”

“That is despite the strategy being in place for three years and us seeing a worsening picture for those three years—the strategy is working. You said it is a local issue. ICSs are going to play a more significant role from April 2026 and have more responsibility for vaccines and vaccine strategies. If it is a local iss…”

“The strategy is the right one and it is being implemented—that is what I am hearing.”

“I am going to come on to health visitors. If your reading of the situation is that the strategy is right, and that there is not a problem with the implementation of resources, why are we so far behind and still falling on most if not all of the measures?”

“Good morning, Minister. Thanks for joining us. I am going to ask you a few questions about vaccination rates, which the Committee has heard a considerable amount of evidence about during our inquiry. Since 2021-22, we have seen considerable falls in vaccination rates for mothers and babies in the 1,000 critical days pe…”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Sam Rushworth) for bringing this important discussion. My hon. Friend the Member for Rugby (John Slinger) rightly points out the survival challenge. We know that survival is improved with quick access to these vital devices. Many Members have described deserts of a…”