§ Mr. Lansley:To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish the statistics for England for quarter 1 and quarter 2 of the 2003–04 on MRSA collated in the mandatory MRSA bacteraemia surveillance scheme; and if he will make a statement. [140860]
§ Miss Melanie Johnson[holding answer 3 December 2003]: Results for the first quarter of 2003–04 (April to June 2003) of the mandatory surveillance scheme are available in the Communicable Disease Report Weekly of 18 September 2003, available at www.hpa.org.uk/cdr/PDFfiles/2003/cdr3803.pdf. A total of 1,823 reports were received.
Data for the second quarter (July to September 2003) will be published shortly.