Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital admissions were related to heroin overdoses in each of the last five years.

The data requested is published in the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s annual ‘Hospital Episode Statistics, Admitted patient care – England’ report, which are available here:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/searchcatalogue?q=title%3A%22Hospital+Episode+Statistics%2C+Admitted+patient+care+-+England%22&area=&size=10&sort=Relevance