Written question asked by Maria Miller (Conservative) on Tuesday, 24 February 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 27 February 2009. It was answered by Baroness Primarolo (Labour) on Friday, 27 February 2009 on behalf of the Department of Health.

MMR Vaccine

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the total number of children in each region who had not received the MMR vaccine in each of the last 10 years.

Answer: Tables of the percentage of children immunised with measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at two and five years of age in each strategic health authority are published in the annual statistical bulletin 'NHS Immunisation Statistics, England'. Copies of the reports titled; 'NHS Immunisation Statistics, England 1998-99', 'NHS Immunisation Statistics, England 1999-2000', 'NHS Immunisation Statistics, England 2000-01' and 'NHS Immunisation Statistics, England 2001-02' have been placed in the Library. Copies of the reports titled; 'NHS Immunisation Statistics, England, 2002-03', 'NHS Immunisation Statistics, England, 2003-04', 'NHS Immunisation Statistics, England, 2004-05', 'NHS Immunisation Statistics, England, 2005-06', 'NHS Immunisation Statistics, England, 2006-07' and 'NHS Immunisation Statistics, England 2007-08' have already been placed in the Library.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 488 c1173-4W; 259310
Session: 2008-09
Related items: Deposited Paper DEP2009-0571
Friday, 27 February 2009
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Subjects: MMR vaccine
Contains statistics: Yes
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