Question reference: S5W-27190
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 29 January 2020
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Current status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 25 February 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether HPV vaccinations for boys are administered according to age group or school year, and whether boys born in 2006 are being inoculated.
Answer
Vaccination policy in Scotland, as with the rest of the UK, is based on recommendations from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). Following the Committee’s recommendation the HPV vaccination programme has been extended to include S1 boys this academic year (2019-20) and we would encourage all those eligible to take up the offer. The JCVI has not recommended a catch up approach for the HPV boys programme. The JCVI keeps its recommendations under review and if the advice on HPV vaccination was to change we would of course give this due consideration.