Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been treated for acid burns in the NHS in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is provided in the table below. This is a count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with a primary diagnosis of corrosive burns, for each year since 2011-12 in England. This is a count of hospital attendances, not individual patients as the same person may have been admitted into a National Health Service hospital on more than one occasion.

A count of FAEs with a primary diagnosis of corrosive burns, for the financial years between 2011-12 and 2015-16 (activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector).

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital