Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 4720

Visual Impairment

Tabled: 9 September 2024
Answered: 16 September 2024

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in the UK have been diagnosed with severe visual impairments.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
Health is a devolved matter. In England, data is not collected centrally showing the total number of people diagnosed with severe visual impairments. Data is collected annually, showing the number of people certified as sight impaired, also known as parti...
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