§ Dr. FoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hepatitis B carriers there are in the United Kingdom. [127359]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonStudies suggest that the prevalence of chronic hepatitis B infection in the population of England is around 0.3 per cent., equivalent to 150,000 hepatitis B carriers.
Information on hepatitis B in Scotland and Wales is available from the Devolved Administrations. While the institutions in Northern Ireland are dissolved, responsibility rests with Ministers in the Northern Ireland Office.