Tuberculosis
(asked on 29th August 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of tuberculosis have been recorded in each of the last 10 years.
The number of people notified with tuberculosis in England over the last 10 years is published as part of the UK Health Security Agency’s tuberculosis annual report. The latest annual report, released in December 2024, includes data up to the end of 2023. The full report and data tables are available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tuberculosis-in-england-2024-report
The following table shows tuberculosis notifications for the previous 10 years:
Year | Total number of notifications |
2014 | 6,473 |
2015 | 5,734 |
2016 | 5,621 |
2017 | 5,066 |
2018 | 4,610 |
2019 | 4,704 |
2020 | 4,124 |
2021 | 4,407 |
2022 | 4,375 |
2023 | 4,855 |
2024 | 5,480 |
Note: data for 2024 is provisional and was included in the quarterly report for quarter four of 2024, which is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tuberculosis-in-england-national-quarterly-reports/national-quarterly-report-of-tuberculosis-in-england-quarter-4-2024-provisional-data