Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the child MMR vaccination rates.

Public Health England routinely monitors coverage for the national immunisation programme, including the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine on a quarterly and annual basis.

National coverage figures reported for the MMR first dose as measured at five years show coverage, which reached the World Health Organization recommended target level of 95% for the first-time last year, was 94.9% in England in 2017-18. Uptake of the second MMR dose by age five years in England was 87.2%. The 2017/18 data can be viewed at the following link:

https://files.digital.nhs.uk/55/D9C4C2/child-vacc-stat-eng-2017-18-report.pdf