Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2016 to Question 33688, how many individuals were screened for tuberculosis among populations deemed to be at high risk of that infection in each year since 2010.

There are two systematic tuberculosis (TB) screening programmes for individuals arriving into the United Kingdom. Details of these screening programmes can be found in the collaborative TB strategy for England, available at the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/403231/Collaborative_TB_Strategy_for_England_2015_2020_.pdf

Data on number of individuals screened and number of cases of active TB of the lungs diagnosed by pre-entry screening is provided in the table.

Table: Number of active TB cases diagnosed by the UK TB pre-entry annually and total number screened since 2010

*1,035 records had no clinical details and were excluded from the rate calculation

Note:

An additional 17 high volume countries joined the screening programme in 2014. In addition, some countries which started screening in 2013 only screened to volume in 2014. More information can be found in the TB pre-entry screening report 2014 at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tuberculosis-pre-entry-screening-in-the-uk