§ Ms LawrenceTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales when up-to-date figures will be available on the incidence of breast cancer among women by unitary authority area and by age. [43473]
§ Mr. Win GriffithsThe Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit is dealing with the registration backlog at the rate of one year's data every four months.
This means incidence data for the current calendar year (1998) should be available by February 2000. For 1999 and subsequent years, data will be available in the following September.