§ Mr. WrayTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Sevices what is his estimate of the average cost to public funds of each cervical cancer death, including hospital, medical services, medicines and funeral expenses, social security payments, and similar benefits to the children and relations in need.
§ Mrs. CurrieInformation is available only on the costs incurred in any particular year of treating in-patients with cervical cancer who were discharged or who died in hospital during that year. This came to about £11 million in England, in 1987–88, which represents £940 per case treated. It is not possible to trace the treatment and other costs incurred in the course of their illness by patients who eventually die of cervical cancer. The average cost of each cervical smear taken is estimated to be £10.