Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to improve MMR vaccination rates.

NHS England and NHS Improvement, Public Health England and key stakeholders are implementing actions from the Measles and rubella UK elimination strategy 2019, to increase take-up of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. This includes:

- Implementing a catch-up vaccination programme for 10 and 11-year olds through general practices, to continue into 2020/21;

- Notifications from Child Health Information Services to help general practices identify children with due and overdue vaccinations; and

- Initiatives led by local teams to address inequalities in vaccine uptake, such as a targeted MMR catch-up campaign with 16 universities in October 2019.