Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will publish the data recorded in the National Hepatitis C register referred to in the NHS press release of 29 January, which set out plans for England to be the first in the world to eliminate the disease.

The National Hepatitis C Patient Registry was established in 2017 to record and monitor treatment uptake, outcomes and increased diagnosis rates in real time. To date, NHS England has only been able to publish data on the number of treatments successfully delivered; this shows that nationally 9,440 treatments were delivered in England in 2016/17 against a target of 10,000.

While NHS England provides information on treatment numbers for inclusion in the Public Health England annual surveillance report, it does not intend to publish registry data separately because the data contains confidential patient information.