asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many cases of German measles were reported in each of the past 10 years; and how many have been reported in 1978 at the last date for which figures are available.

Rubella—German measles —is not a notifiable disease, but returns to the Royal College of General Practitioners from a representative sample of practitioners show the national trend, expressed as a weekly rate per 100,000 of the population, of all ages, to be as follows: