PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Tuberculosis (3 July 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of people with a diagnosis of (a) TB and (b) drug-resistant TB in (i) Wirral, (ii) Merseyside, (iii) the North West and (iv) England.

Asked by:
Dame Angela Eagle (Labour)

Data for the number of people with tuberculosis (TB) and drug resistant TB is displayed in the following table:

Area	TB notifications Average annual incidence 2014-16		Drug resistance / multi-drug resistant or rifampicin resistant TB 2012-16
	Number of cases		Number of cases
Wirral	10		*
Merseyside	60		*
North West	603		30
England	5,954		333

Source: Tuberculosis in England 2017 report

Note:

*Figures are not published at this boundary level

Answered by:
Steve Brine (Conservative)
6 July 2018