Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in which age bands have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in each of the last five years.

The information is not available in the requested format. However, the Health and Social Care Information Centre does hold information on the number of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of bipolar affective disorder by age bands for the years 2009-2010 to 2013-2014 and the breakdown is given in the attached table, Count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with a primary diagnosis of bipolar affective disorder by age band for years 2009-10 to 2013-14.