UK Achieves Measles Elimination Status
- Submitted by: Alexander Burnett, Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 September 2017
- Motion reference: S5M-07950
That the Parliament welcomes the news that measles has reached elimination status in the UK for the first time; notes that the national vaccine coverage of the first MMR dose in five-year-olds has hit the World Health Organization's (WHO) 95% target, and congratulates the UK and Scottish NHS on achieving this.
Supported by:
Jeremy Balfour, Colin Beattie, Miles Briggs, Donald Cameron, Jackson Carlaw, Finlay Carson, Peter Chapman, Neil Findlay, Murdo Fraser, Kenneth Gibson, Maurice Golden, Jamie Halcro Johnston, Rachael Hamilton, Alison Harris, Liam Kerr, Gordon Lindhurst, Ruth Maguire, John Mason, Tom Mason, Ivan McKee, Margaret Mitchell, Edward Mountain, Oliver Mundell, Liz Smith, Stewart Stevenson, Alexander Stewart, Annie Wells