Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to ensure that the UK regains its measles free status.

In January 2019 Public Health England, Public Health Wales, The Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland and Health Protection Scotland published the United Kingdom Measles and Rubella elimination strategy at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/measles-and-rubella-elimination-uk-strategy

NHS England and NHS Improvement, the Department and Public Health England are implementing the actions of the strategy, working with key national and local stakeholders, for example, local screening and immunisation teams. Recent examples of actions include a new catch-up vaccination programme for 10 and 11 year olds through general practitioner practices, communications campaigns targeting festival goers and students, and local initiatives led by local teams to address inequalities in vaccine uptake.