Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have had NHS treatment for gallstones in each of the last five years.

A count of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of cholelithiasis and gallstone ileus for the financial years 2013-14 to 2017-18 is shown in the following table. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period:

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital