Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of gonorrhoea have been diagnosed in each of the last 30 years.
The following table shows the number of gonorrhoea diagnoses in sexual health services in England between 1994 and 2023:
Year | Number of gonorrhoea diagnoses |
1994 | 9,631 |
1995 | 9,890 |
1996 | 11,828 |
1997 | 12,332 |
1998 | 12,457 |
1999 | 15,450 |
2000 | 20,297 |
2001 | 22,198 |
2002 | 24,123 |
2003 | 23,346 |
2004 | 20,669 |
2005 | 17,632 |
2006 | 17,191 |
2007 | 17,119 |
2008 | 14,985 |
2009 | 16,141 |
2010 | 16,839 |
2011 | 21,090 |
2012 | 26,909 |
2013 | 31,200 |
2014 | 37,150 |
2015 | 41,290 |
2016 | 36,545 |
2017 | 44,839 |
2018 | 56,690 |
2019 | 71,133 |
2020 | 50,678 |
2021 | 49,321 |
2022 | 79,268 |
2023 | 85,223 |
Source: UK Health Security Agency