Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of rickets among children and young people there were in each of the last 10 years.

The following table shows a total count of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of rickets and a primary or secondary diagnosis of rickets in England since 2004-05. For the purposes of this parliamentary question children have been defined as aged 0 to 17 and young people have been defined as aged 18 to 24.

This is not a count of patients as the same patient may be admitted more than once in a financial year and the figures are for diagnoses that have resulted in a hospital admission.