Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were treated for hepatitis C in England in the financial year 2018-19.

Public Health England publishes information on the numbers of individual’s accessing hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment in their annual hepatitis C reports.

Latest available data for 2017/18 financial year show that 11,557 people were reported to have accessed HCV treatment in England. This can be viewed at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/798270/HCV_in-England_2019.pdf

Data for the 2018/19 financial year for England will be published in 2020.