Epilepsy: Children
(asked on 11th February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people under the age of 18 have epilepsy.
This question was answered on 22nd February 2016
The Department does not collect this information centrally. The Joint Epilepsy Council in Epilepsy prevalence, incidence and other statistics, (December 2011) estimated that around one in 220 (0.5%) children under the age of 18 have epilepsy in the United Kingdom.