Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of diagnoses of syphilis in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and Humber and (c) Kingston Upon Hull in each of the last eight years.

Public Health England routinely collects data on sexually transmitted infections diagnoses, testing and other sexual health related services. In England, the number of syphilis diagnoses in the last eight years was 2,646 in 2010; 2,927 in 2011; 3,014 in 2012; 3,344 in 2013; 4,448 in 2014; 5,322 in 2015; 5,955 in 2016 and 7,137 in 2017.

In Yorkshire and Humber, the number of syphilis diagnoses in the last five years was 213 in 2013; 204 in 2014; 203 in 2015; 376 in 2016 and 417 in 2017. Data are not available before 2013.

In Kingston upon Hull, the number of syphilis diagnoses in the last six years was 8 in 2012; 24 in 2013; 7 in 2014; 10 in 2015; 11 in 2016 and 23 in 2017. Data are not available before 2012.