Greg Mulholland – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-07-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people in the UK affected by each strand of the hepatitis virus.

Nicola Blackwood

Public Health England receives laboratory reports of confirmed cases of hepatitis A, C and E from England and Wales and from England for hepatitis B.

In 2014, 300 reports were received for hepatitis A, 488 for hepatitis B, 11,997 for hepatitis C and 886 for hepatitis E.