Vaccination: Staffordshire
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of the uptake of vaccines by children in (a) Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency and (b) Staffordshire.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) monitors trends in the level of childhood vaccination rates by upper tier local authority (UTLA), region and country level. Newcastle-under-Lyme falls within the Staffordshire UTLA.
In Staffordshire, children aged five years old in 2023/2024 had a 94.8% coverage for the first dose of the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine. This is a 0.7 percentage point decrease from 2022/2023, when the coverage was 95.5% but is 3.6 percentage points above the England average which was 91.9%.
Coverage of the 6-in-1 vaccine, which includes diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis also known as whooping cough, polio, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and hepatitis B, in the same age group was 95.6% in 2023/2024, a 0.7 percentage point decrease from 96.3% in 2022/2023 but 3.7 percentage points above the England average of 92.6%.
Data on coverage of all routine childhood immunisations are published quarterly by UKHSA and annually by NHS England, and are available at the following links:
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