PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(24 June 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of (a) hospital admissions and (b) reported illnesses associated with exposure to (i) Vibrio, (ii) Campylobacter and (iii) Pseudomonas aeruginosa in UK bathing waters in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Chris Webb (Labour)

Information is not available in the format requested. However, the following table shows the number of admissions with a primary diagnosis related to vibrio, campylobacter, and pseudomonas, from 2019/20 to 2023/24:

Primary diagnosis	2023/24	2022/23	2021/22	2020/21	2019/20
Cholera due to Vibrio cholerae 01, biovar cholerae	1	1	-	-	-
Campylobacter enteritis	5,520	4,341	4,685	3,719	3,994
Pneumonia due to Pseudomonas	1,145	1,009	863	586	990
Congenital pneumonia due to Pseudomonas	2	1	0	0	1

Source: Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity, available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-admitted-patient-care-activity

The above data does not record the underlying causation, including any illness associated with United Kingdom bathing waters.

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