Internal Reference Number: FOI_9422
Date Request Received: 26/05/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 28/05/2026 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Number of asbestos-related illness referrals in under 21s
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please provide the following information from the financial years 2020/2021 to the end of the financial year 2025/2026: The total number of patients aged under 21 who presented, or were referred within your organisation with a diagnosis or suspected diagnosis of an asbestos-related disease, including but not limited to: mesothelioma, asbestosis, pleural plaques, pleural effusion attributed to asbestos exposure, or diffuse pleural thickening. | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see our response to questions 1 and 2 in the spreadsheet attached. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  13757 - FOI_9422 - Number of asbestos-related illness referrals in under 21s.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: Please break this figure down by financial year. Where the number of cases in any given year is five or fewer, please state "<5" rather than the exact figure. | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see attached | |
| Question Number 3: Please confirm whether your organisation holds any coded data for these conditions in patients aged under 21, even if no cases have been recorded during the period. If you do not hold this information, please confirm that is the case and, where possible, advise which body may hold it. | |
| Answer To Question 3: The Trust do not code 'suspected' diagnoses, only confirmed diagnoses. If there were genuine diagnoses confirmed then we would hold the codes for these cases. | |
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