Written question asked by Andrew Turner (Conservative) on Tuesday, 5 February 2002, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 25 February 2002. It was answered by Yvette Cooper (Labour) on Monday, 25 February 2002 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Dept of Health

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children received a single (a) mumps, (b) measles and (c) rubella vaccine in each year since the introduction of the MMR vaccine in (i) each county or health authority and (ii) England. (Tables in Library Dep 02/417). - Includes fact that available information in Library. (Holding answer 8 February 2002).

Answer: Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children received a single (a) mumps, (b) measles and (c) rubella vaccine in each year since the introduction of the MMR vaccine in (i) each county or health authority and (ii) England. [34497] Yvette Cooper: [holding answer 8 February 2002]: The available information about children under five years of age who have received the single measles and single rubella vaccine for each year since the introduction of MMR has been placed in the Library. Routine requests for information about the uptake of single measles vaccine were discontinued in 1994 and there were no returns for the single measles vaccine after 1991-92. Single rubella vaccine was not available for children under five years of age. Single mumps vaccine has never been recommended in the United Kingdom and there were no data collected centrally.

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