asked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will give, for Scot-land and each health board, the incidence of congenital rubella in 1977 and in 1978 to the latest date for which figures are available;(2) if he will give the incidence of congenital malformations for Scotland and each health board area in 1977;(3) if he will give the incidence of cerebral palsy in Scotland and in each health board area in 1977.

Health Boards			Number of girls born (1963-67) vaccinated in 1977(A)	Number of women born before 1963 vaccinated in 1977(B)	Percentage of girls born in 1963 vaccinated by 31st December 1977
Argyll and Clyde*	…	…	2,648	287	86·2
Ayrshire and Arran	…	…	2,661	114	84·9
Borders	…	…	787	25	88·6
Dumfries and Galloway	…	…	1,216	53	84·9
Fife	…	…	1,927	398	73·9
Forth Valley	…	…	1,657	3	76·9
Grampian	…	…	2,924	127	79·5
Greater Glasgow	…	…	8,040	105	82·4
Highland	…	…	1,060	497	63·7
Lanarkshire	…	…	4,960	54	90·9
Lothian	…	…	2,496	130	(36·0)†
Orkney	…	…	168	3	79·6
Shetland	…	…	395	193	85·8
Tayside	…	…	2,890	200	83·9
Western Isles	…	…	221	51	87·2
Scotland*	…	…	34,049	2,240	82·5‡
* Excludes 320 women ages unknown in columns (A) and (B) and a number of unrecorded vaccinations carried out in the city of Edinburgh.
† Vaccination offered only to girls who are sero-negative in Edinburgh city.
‡ This estimate includes Lothian health board.

Percentage figures for vaccinations are in relation to girls who reached their fourteenth birthday in 1977, regardless of the year in which they were vaccinated.