Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total number was of patients diagnosed with (a) generalised and (b) partial lipodystrophy in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
NHS Digital’s Hospital Episode Statistics system has a record of 461 finished admission episodes for patients with a primary diagnosis of lipodystrophy for the years 2012-13 to 2016-17 (86 in 2013/13, 97 in 2013/14, 102 in 2014/15, 93 in 2015/16, and 83 in 2016/17).