Diphtheria

(asked on 11th January 2024) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 22nd January 2024

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:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/diphtheria-in-england-and-wales-annual-reports/diphtheria-in-england-2022

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