Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to monitor levels of diptheria; and whether she has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on testing people arriving in the UK for diptheria.
Diphtheria is a notifiable disease in the United Kingdom and so there is a requirement for clinicians to report cases on clinical suspicion of infection and the incidence of infection is monitored. Epidemiological data is available at the following link: