Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I thank the Chairman for the invitation to make sure that message is reinforced. At the moment we are talking about the Covid booster and flu vaccines. With the risk of mumps, measles, rubella and so on, we want to reinforce the message at every opportunity that our primary challenge with the immunisation programme is exceptionally important. We are seeing challenging childhood immunisation uptake rates in parts of the child population. My predecessor once-removed, Tony O'Brien, spent ages trying to recover from misinformation and disinformation on the HPV programme. We are now rolling the HPV vaccine out to a wider catchment. On the overall position of vaccination and immunisation, we are categorically saying to people that this does protect them and reduce the risk of harm. It not only reduces the risk of harm to the person being vaccinated but also reduces the risk of harm to the people around them. We urge people to take up the different programmes available to them.