Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the take up of childhood vaccinations in (a) Lambeth, (b) Greater London and (c) the UK for each ethnic group.

Childhood vaccination uptake data by ethnicity is not routinely collected. Accordingly it is not possible to provide any information relating to Lambeth and the United Kingdom for each ethnic group.

In relation to Greater London, a paper was published in 2013 which summarised the results of a specific one-off study to assess childhood vaccination uptake by ethnicity in London for children born between 2006-07 and 2010-11. The study covered nine London Primary Care Trust areas (Camden, Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Havering, Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Ealing, Hounslow, Sutton and Merton). A copy of the study is attached.