HC Deb 25 May 1993 vol 225 c505W
Ms Primarolo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what has been the number of cases of German measles in(a) each complete year since 1980 and (b) in 1993 to date.

Mr. Sackville

The information is shown in the table.

Notifications of Rubella1 (German measles) 1989–93
Number
1989 24,570
1990 11,491
1991 7,174
1992 6,212
1993 24,977
1 Rubella (German measles) only became a notifiable disease in October 1988 and therefore the first complete year for which there are statistics is 1989.
2 Provisional figure for 1993, up to and including 7 May.