Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have received cochlear implants aged under 18 in each of the last 3 years.

The Department does not hold data on the number of people aged under or over 18 years old who have received cochlear implants in the last three years. However, the Hospital Episode Statistics provide a count of finished consultant episodes where there was any procedure of “cochlear implant”. The following table shows the count of finished consultant episodes where there was any procedure of “cochlear implant” for 2022/23, 2023/24, and 2024/25, broken down by age group:

This data reflects the number of procedures, as individuals may have multiple admissions for the same procedure within a given period.