Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate her Department has made of the number of measles cases in (a) London, (b) Wandsworth borough and (c) Putney constituency.

The UK Health Security Agency publishes routine data on laboratory confirmed measles cases by age and region monthly, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/measles-epidemiology-2023/confirmed-cases-of-measles-in-england-by-month-age-and-region-2023

This routine report does not include a breakdown of cases by local authority, due to the small numbers and the risk of deductive disclosure. Data can be enhanced retrospectively and analysed over longer periods to describe inequalities in the burden of disease. This was most recently published in 2019, and is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/measles-and-rubella-elimination-uk-strategy