Health written question – answered at on 17 March 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were diagnosed with tuberculosis in each of the last three years.
The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in the United Kingdom is assessed through systematic analysis of notification data obtained from the Enhanced Tuberculosis Surveillance System run by Public Health England (PHE).
In 2012 in the UK, a total of 8,751 cases of TB were reported, a rate of 13.9 cases per 100,000 population. In 2011, 8,899 TB cases were reported in the UK (a rate of 14.1/100,000 population), and 8,397 TB cases were reported in 2010 (a rate of 13.5 per 100,000 population).
The latest analysis can be found in the updated PHE TB annual report, which has been placed in the Library.
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