§ Ms. HarmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for every month since March 1990 the district health authorities not reaching the one month target for cervical cancer test turnround time; and if he will state the time taken in each of those authorities.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThis information is not available in the form requested. At June 1991, 31 district health authorities reported that they were not meeting the one-month target for processing cervical smear tests. These were as follows:
Regional Health Authority District Health Authority Number of weeks Northern S. W. Durham 6.0 Yorkshire Bradford 6.0 Trent South Derbyshire 6.5 East Anglian Cambridge 6.0 North East Thames Mid Essex 7.0 Waltham Forest 9.0 Basildon and Thurrock 5.0 South East Thames Brighton 8.0 Tunbridge Wells 6.0 Bromley 8.0 Wessex Bath 8.5 North Western Stockport 13.0 Tameside 7.0