Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the earliest age a child can receive a diagnosis for Asthma.

I refer the Hon Member to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guidance for asthma diagnosis, which is available at the following link:

https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/asthma/diagnosis/assessment/

There are 22,025 children, those who are under 16 years old, registered to a Cheshire and Merseyside general practice with a diagnosis of asthma in their primary care record. They have an average age at diagnosis of five years and 10 days, based on the earliest confirmed asthma diagnosis recorded in the available primary care data.