Written question asked by Mark Durkan (Social Democratic & Labour Party) on Thursday, 18 January 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 22 January 2007. It was answered by Ivan Lewis (Labour) on Wednesday, 28 February 2007 on behalf of the Department of Health.

MRSA

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of MRSA were recorded in England in each of the last five years.

Answer

The number of cases of MRSA recorded in England, for each of the last financial years is set out in the following table.

April to March each year	Number of MRSA reports
2001-02	7,291
2002-03	7,426
2003-04	7,698
2004-05	7,233
2005-06	7,095
Note:
Data subject to change.
Source:
Data published by the Health Protection Agency, 30 January 2007.

There were 3,391 cases of MRSA recorded for the six-month period April to September 2006.

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