Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) babies and (b) children have been admitted to hospital with RSV/bronchiolistis in each of the last 12 months for which data is available.

This information is not held in the format requested. NHS Digital advise that since December 2021 there was a finished admission episode (FAE) count of 38,705 babies aged 0 who had a primary diagnosis of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) or bronchiolitis, and similarly a count of 7,382 for children aged one years old to 17 years old.

For the same period there was a FAE count of 43,391 babies aged 0 with a secondary diagnosis of RSV or bronchiolitis, and a count of 11,503 for children aged one years old to 17 years old.