In July 2008 GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) won a £100 million contract to provide sufficient Gardasil jabs to vaccinate all 12-13 year old girls in the UK.

Two weeks earlier, a senior GSK vice president, Paul Blackburn, was appointed to the board of Ofsted, the UK Government’s Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. Ofsted is also responsible for overseeing foster care and GSK is known to have tested their drugs on children in foster homes

In the same month GSK chief executive Andrew Witty took over from the previous GSK chief executive Jean Pierre Garnier on Gordon Brown’s prestigious ‘Business Council’

It would, of course, be completely improper to suggest that there was any link between these events.

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