To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of children up to the age of six years old were inoculated against measles in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08 and (c) 2008-09; and how many such inoculations were for measles only. (268734)

Routine childhood immunisation against measles is provided by the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave the hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mrs. Miller) on 27 February 2009, Official Report, columns 1173-74W, for information about 2006-07 and 2007-08. Information for MMR vaccine uptake for the year 2008-09 is not yet available.

Data on the use of single vaccines are not collected. As a result the proportion of children fully or partially protected against measles may be slightly higher than that identified by the MMR vaccine uptake data collection.