Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children aged (a) under 10 and (b) 10 years and over were admitted to hospital with a (i) primary and (ii) secondary diagnosis of liver disease in each year since 1997.

The attached tables give the number of finished admission episodes for children aged (a) under 10 years and (b) 10 - 17years,who were admitted to hospital with a (i) primary and (ii) secondary diagnosis of liver disease from 1997-98 to 2012-13.