HC Deb 26 October 1987 vol 121 cc189-92W
Mr. Wray

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) how the existing laboratories for the testing of cervical cancer are distributed;

(2) how many laboratories there are which test for cervical cancer.

Mrs. Currie

The available information for England is given in the table. Figures for Scotland and Wales are the responsibility of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.

Region and District Health Authorities Number of laboratories
England 196
Northern RHA 11
Hartlepool 11
North Tees 1
South Tees 1
East Cumbria 1
West Cumbria 1
Darlington 1
North West Durham 1
Gateshead 1
Newcastle 2
Sunderland 1
Yorkshire RHA 16
East Yorkshire 1
Grimsby 1
Scunthorpe 1
Northallerton 1
York 1
Scarborough 1
Harrogate 1
Bradford 1
Calderdale 1
Huddersfield 1
Dewsbury 1
Leeds Western 2
Leeds Eastern 1
Wakefield 1
Pontefract 1
Trent RHA 13
North Derbyshire 1
Southern Derbyshire 1
Leicestershire 1
North Lincolnshire 1
South Lincolnshire 1
Bassetlaw 1
Central Nottinghamshire 1
Nottingham 1
Barnsley 1
Doncaster 1
Rotherham 1
Sheffield 2
East Anglian RHA 7
Cambridge 1
Peterborough 1
West Suffolk 1
East Suffolk 1

Region and District Health Authorities Number of laboratories
Norwich 1
Great Yarmouth and Waveney 1
West Norfolk and Wisbech 1
North West Thames RHA 18
North Bedfordshire 1
South Bedfordshire 1
North Hertfordshire 1
East Hertfordshire 1
South West Hertfordshire 1
Barnet 2
Harrow 1
Hillingdon 2
Hounslow and Spelthorne 2
Ealing 1
Brent 1
Paddington and North Kensington 1
Riverside 3
North East Thames RHA 18
Basildon and Thurrock 1
Mid Essex 1
North East Essex 1
West Essex 1
Southend 1
Barking, Havering and Brentwood 2
Bloomsbury 3
Islington 1
City and Hackney 1
Newham 1
Tower Hamlets 1
Enfield 1
Haringey 1
Redbridge 1
Waltham Forest 1
South East Thames RHA 16
Brighton 1
Eastbourne 1
Hastings 1
South East Kent 1
Canterbury and Thanet 1
Dartford and Gravesham 1
Med way 1
Tunbridge Wells 1
Bexley 1
Greenwich 2
Bromley 1
West Lambeth 1
Camberwell 1
Lewisham and North Southwark 2
South West Thames RHA 12
North West Surrey 1
West Surrey and North East Hants 1
South West Surrey 1
Mid Surrey 1
East Surrey 1
Chichester 1
Mid Downs 1
Worthing 1
Kingston and Esher 1
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 1
Wandsworth 1
Merton and Sutton 1
Wessex RHA 10
East Dorset 2
West Dorset 1
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 1
Southampton and South West Hampshire 1
Winchester 1
Salisbury 1
Swindon 1
Bath 1
Isle of Wight 1

Region and District Health Authorities Number of laboratories
Oxford RHA 7
East Berkshire 1
West Berkshire 1
Aylesbury Vale 1
Wycombe 1
Kettering 1
Northampton 1
Oxfordshire 1
South Western RHA 10
Bristol and Weston 1
Frenchay 1
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 1
Exeter 1
Plymouth 1
Torbay 1
Cheltenham 1
Gloucester 1
Somerset 2
West Midlands RHA 21
Bromsgrove and Redditch 1
Herefordshire 1
Worcester and District 1
Shropshire 1
Mid Staffordshire 1
North Staffordshire 1
South East Staffordshire 1
Rugby 1
North Warwickshire 1
South Warwickshire 1
Central Birmingham 1
North Birmingham 1
South Birmingham 1
West Birmingham 1
Coventry 1
Dudley 1
Sandwell 1
Solihull 1
Walsall 1
Wolverhampton 1
Mersey RHA 15
Chester 1
Crewe 1
Halton 1
Macclesfield 1
Warrington 1
Liverpool 3
St. Helens and Knowsley 2
Southport and Formby 1
South Sefton 2
Wirral 2
North Western RHA 18
Lancaster 1
Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 1
Preston 1
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 1
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 1
West Lancashire 1
Bolton 1
Bury 1
North Manchester 1
Central Manchester 1
South Manchester 2
Oldham 1
Rochdale 1
Salford 1
Stockport 1
Tameside and Glossop 1

Region and District Health Authorities Number of laboratories
Wigan 1
All Special health authorities 4
The Royal Marsden Hospital 1
Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's 3