Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have received eye tests on the NHS in each of the last five years.

The following table shows the number of National Health Service sight tests for persons in England from 2008-09 to 2012-13. This information has been extracted from the report, General Ophthalmic Services: Activity Statistics for England, Year ending 31 March 2013.

This report, published July 18, 2013, can be accessed here:

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