Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many men and boys were treated in hospital for complications or after-effects arising from circumcision (a) in an NHS hospital and (b) conducted privately in each of the last three years.

The number of men and boys treated in hospital for complications or after-effects arising from circumcision in a National Health Service hospital and conducted privately in each of the last three years, is not collected centrally.

The number of men and boys circumcised for medical reasons through the NHS in each of the last three years is not collected centrally. However, the table below shows a count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) where the primary procedure was a circumcision undertaken for medical reasons for boys (aged under 18 years) and men (aged 18 years and over) for 2012-13 to 2014-15.

Note that these data should not be described as counts of people as the same person may have had more than one episode of care in the time period presented.

Counts of FAEs where the primary procedure was a circumcision undertaken for medical reasons for boys (aged under 18 years) and men (aged 18 years and over) for 2012-13 to 2014-15