§ Tim LoughtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in each of the last 10 years have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. [134834]
§ Ms Rosie WintertonThis information is not available in the form requested. However, based on information from the Health Survey for England, the following figures may be estimated.
Number of people with diabetes in the UK 1994 1,378,707 1998 1,684,111 Data are not routinely collected on the number of people being diagnosed with diabetes. Local health care providers will, however, increasingly gather information as they build registers of people with diabetes as they begin to implement the national service framework.