§ Mr. Gerald HowarthTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people visited a genito-urinary clinic in 39W (a) 1970, (b) 1980, (c) 1990 and (d) 1999; and what was the cost of drugs prescribed to deal with sexually transmitted diseases in each of these years. [126798]
§ Yvette CooperThe available information is as follows.
Diagnoses1 of sexually transmitted diseases in genito-urinary medicine clinics in England Year Number of diagnoses 1970 251,256 1980 288,315 1990 308,211 19982 507,655 1Provide an indication of patient numbers but individuals may have more than one diagnosis 2Data for 1999 are not available yet Information on overall drugs expenditure to treat sexually transmitted diseases is not available.