Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cataract operations were performed in NHS hospitals in each year since 2009-10.

The following table provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre shows the number of finished consultant episodes where a cataract procedure was performed by National Health Service providers in England between 2009-10 and 2012-13.

Note: The figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.