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The Deputy Presiding Officer (Elaine Smith) Lab

The next item of business is a debate on motion S4M-09446, in the name of Michael Matheson, on Scotland’s immunisation programme. 15:41

The Minister for Public Health (Michael Matheson) SNP

I am pleased to open the debate. The World Health Organization has stated that the two public health interventions that have had the greatest impact on the ...

Patrick Harvie (Glasgow) (Green) Green

There are indeed high uptake rates and we can be confident that there will be success in preventing instances of cervical cancer. HPV is implicated in a numb...

Michael Matheson SNP

The member may be aware that the advice that Governments receive on the use of vaccination programmes comes from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immun...

Dr Richard Simpson (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab) Lab

Fourteen routine vaccines are given to people throughout their lives, from two months old to over 70—and the meningitis B vaccine is coming along. Despite pe...

Nanette Milne (North East Scotland) (Con) Con

This is a welcome and timely debate as it comes just a month before this year’s world immunisation week and a few days after the recommendation by the Joint ...

The Deputy Presiding Officer (John Scott) Con

We move to the open debate. 16:07

Aileen McLeod (South Scotland) (SNP) SNP

I am delighted to speak in this debate on the Scottish immunisation programme. I echo the minister’s remarks that vaccination is one of the most effective an...

Graeme Pearson (South Scotland) (Lab) Lab

I am grateful for the chance to contribute to the debate and I support the motion as amended by my colleague Richard Simpson. The vaccination immunisation p...

Joan McAlpine (South Scotland) (SNP) SNP

I begin by thanking the minister for his letter of 21 March, informing me of the JCVI decision to recommend the introduction of meningitis B vaccine. I have ...

Rhoda Grant (Highlands and Islands) (Lab) Lab

I welcome the debate. As we have heard, immunisation can be life-saving. Members have talked about the devastation that can be caused by the implications of ...

Jim Eadie (Edinburgh Southern) (SNP) SNP

As previous speakers outlined, immunisation has played, and continues to play, a vital role in protecting and improving the health of the people of Scotland....

Jamie McGrigor (Highlands and Islands) (Con) Con

I am pleased to take part in today’s debate. As a father of six children, four of whom are still at school, I am very aware of the immunisations that our you...

Colin Keir (Edinburgh Western) (SNP) SNP

I am delighted to speak in the debate. I was unaware until I joined the Health and Sport Committee, which I did just before Christmas, of how effective the i...

Jackson Carlaw (West Scotland) (Con) Con

It has been a short but well-informed debate. I do not mean to sound patronising when I say that it was clear to me that nearly every contributor to the deba...

Dr Simpson Lab

I commend Jackson Carlaw for his speech, which identified some of the political issues in an exemplary way. The greatest public health achievements have bee...

Michael Matheson SNP

The debate has been very useful, and I am happy to say that we are happy to accept both the Labour and the Conservative Party amendments. The debate has been...