To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 6 March 2007, Official Report, column 1978W, on vaccination, whether her Department had a three-month stock of vaccines for the routine childhood immunisation programme on 1 March. (127922)

On 1 March, the Department had over three months stock of all vaccines used in the routine childhood immunisation programme apart from one vaccine. A delivery of this vaccine was made in the week commencing 5 March, taking its stock holding to over three months.