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Prisoners: Hepatitis

Volume 462: debated on Wednesday 11 July 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many cases of hepatitis B occurred in prisons in each of the last five years. (148407)

The last major study of hepatitis B prevalence in prisoners in England and Wales found that of 3,942 prisoners tested (8 per cent.) were infected with hepatitis B.