MMR vaccine
(asked on 12th July 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of children have been given the measles, mumps and rubella vaccination in each of the last three years.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Coverage of childhood vaccines is measured when children reach their first, second and fifth birthdays.
The following table shows annual data from 2019/20 to 2021/22 for MMR vaccine coverage (percentage uptake) in England:
| MMR1 at two years | MMR1 at five years | MMR2 at five years | |||
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % |
2021/22 | 552,604 | 89.2% | 641,941 | 93.4% | 588,853 | 85.7% |
2020/21 | 569,675 | 90.3% | 654,197 | 94.3% | 601,053 | 88.6% |
2019/20 | 589,306 | 90.6% | 651,969 | 94.5% | 598,626 | 86.8% |
Source: NHS Digital ‘Childhood Vaccination Coverage Statistics’