To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-2606 by Susan Deacon on 30 November 2000, whether the single vaccinations for mumps, measles and rubella are available to patients who cannot receive the combined vaccine and what clinical reasons are necessary to allow the single vaccinations to be made available. The licensing and safety of medicines is a reserved matter. Single dose measles and mumps vaccines are not licensed for sale or use in the UK.The Medicines Control Agency will not object on safety grounds to the import of unlicensed single vaccines if the responsible clinician has declared that the licensed MMR vaccine cannot meet the special needs of an individual patient e.g. where the patient is sensitive to any of the ingredients in the MMR vaccine.