Jim Shannon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-01-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people there were with epilepsy in each of the last five years.

Jane Ellison

Information concerning the number of people diagnosed with epilepsy on an annual basis is not collected. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence estimates that epilepsy affects between 362,000 and 415,000 people in England.