To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what estimate his Department has made of the percentage increase of cystic fibrosis patients over the next (a) one, (b) five and (c) 10 years; (182311)

[holding answer 28 January 2008]: Information on the number of people diagnosed with cystic fibrosis is not collected.

We have made no estimate of the percentage increase in the number of cystic fibrosis patients.