Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what changes there were in the number of people diagnosed with diabetes between 2004 and 2014.
The Quality and Outcomes Framework has been collating data on the number of adults aged 17 years and older who have been diagnosed with diabetes and are on general practice diabetes registers. In 2005 there were 1,766,391 adults aged 17 years and older with diagnosed diabetes on general practice registers. In 2013 this number was 2,703,044.