§ Ms HarmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease have occurred in each of the last 10 years in the United Kingdom. [23425]
§ Mr. HoramThe information requested is published in the fourth annual report of the national Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance unit—August 1995—copies of which are available in the Library. The provisional figures for 1995 are 37 sporadic cases, four iatrogenic cases and one case of Gerstmann-Straussler-Schneiker syndrome.