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Human Papillomavirus: Vaccination

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 218285, tabled on 7 February 2019

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will consider making it a priority of his Departmental to extend the HPV vaccination programme to include male boys.

Answered on

15 February 2019

The Department announced on 24 July 2018 that it is extending the human papillomavirus girls’ vaccination programme to boys and is working with Public Health England and NHS England to roll this out as soon as possible during the 2019/20 academic year.