Health and Social Services Minister Jane Hutt last week announced a target to eliminate sustained person-to-person spread of mumps, measles and rubella by 2015.
A spokesman said MMR had been included to ensure the issue remained high profile. The Assembly Government is working with the National Public Health Service in Wales to see if there are ways of "reinforcing the message about the importance of MMR vaccination".
The Assembly wants to restore public confidence in the MMR vaccine to the level of the mid-1990s.
It is also targeting pedestrian injuries from motor-vehicle accidents, and the health target is now to reduce them by 35 per cent in children up to the age of 14 by 2012.
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