Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission an all-encompassing analysis of the overall health burden of infectious diseases in the UK.

England participates in the international Global ongoing Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study which assesses and compares health within and between countries. This includes an overall assessment of the burden of infectious diseases. Results from the GBD show changes over time, comparisons and ranking of infectious diseases and other diseases and is available at:

http://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/

The most recent analysis on the GBD study was published by Public Health England in September 2015 and is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/burden-of-disease-study-for-england