Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of hepatitis C there have been in the UK in each year since 2010.

Public Health England receives laboratory reports of hepatitis C cases from England and Wales; these reports are presented by year in the following tables. Data for the combined laboratory reports for England and Wales are available from 2013 and published in the Quarterly laboratory-confirmed hepatitis A virus and hepatitis C reports in England and Wales, available to view at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/laboratory-reports-of-hepatitis-a-and-c-2017

Laboratory reports of hepatitis C by year, England and Wales, 2013 to 2016

Source: From the Health Protection Report: Laboratory reports of hepatitis C: annual data.

Laboratory reports of hepatitis C by year, England, 2010-2012

Source: From Hepatitis C in England: 2018 report:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/693917/HCV_in_England_2018.pdf

Laboratory reports of hepatitis C by year, Wales 2010-2012

Source: From Hepatitis C in the UK 2015: annual report

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/448710/NEW_FINAL_HCV_2015_IN_THE_UK_REPORT_28072015_v2.pdf