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Dept of Health

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Mrs. Ewing: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) MMR, (b) MR, (c) single antigen measles, (d) single antigen rubella and (e) single antigen mumps vaccines were administered in the United Kingdom in each year since 1979. [149364] Yvette Cooper: The information available about measles, mumps and rubella, single antigen measles and single antigen rubella vaccinations given in England from 1979 to 1998-99 is contained in the table. Measles vaccine was given to children aged 12-15 months. Rubella vaccine was given to girls at about 10-14 years. Mumps vaccine has never been a part of the United Kingdom's routine immunisation programme and data on this were not collected. MMR vaccine was introduced into the routine UK childhood immunisation programme at age 12-15 months in 1988. MR (measles/rubella) vaccine was used only during the schools immunisation campaign of November 1994. In England, 6.6 million doses of MR vaccine were administered to children aged 5-16 years during that campaign. A second dose of MMR vaccine was introduced into the routine programme in 1996. Data for this vaccine, collected by the Public Health Laboratory Service, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, show uptake of 477,000 (in 1996-97), 933,000 (in 1997-98) and 455,000 (in 1998-99). These figures include doses administered both routinely and during a catch-up programme. Matters concerning Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are for the devolved assemblies. Number of persons immunised in England Thousand _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year MMR: first dose Single antigen measles Single antigen rubella: Schoolgirls immunised{ 1} 1979 {2}-- 332 341 1980 {2}-- 352 320 1981 {2}-- 369 313 1982 {2}-- 391 324 1983 {2}-- 393 315 1984 {2}-- 436 312 1985 {2}-- 474 269 1986 {2}-- 503 270 1987-88{3} {2}-- 647 307 1988-89 670 336 229 1989-90 1,371 25 219 1990-91 1,060 9 199 1991-92 811 {2}-- 221 1992-93 628 {2}-- 204 1993-94 640 {2}-- 181 1994-95 671 {2}-- {2}-- 1995-96 572 {2}-- {2}-- 1996-97 561 {2}-- {2}-- 1997-98 553 {2}-- {2}-- 1998-99 531 {2}-- {2}-- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} The schoolgirl rubella immunisation programme was ended in October 1995. {2} Not available {3} Numbers immunised cover 15 month period from 1 January 1987- 31 March 1988. Source: Forms SBL 607, KC50, KC50A Department of Health, Statistics division SD2B

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Type

Written question

Reference

149364; 362 c660W;362 c660-1W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Children Babies Disease control Rubella Pupils Schools Vaccination MMR vaccine Measles Mumps

Contains statistics

Yes

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