HC Deb 28 November 1988 vol 142 cc141-2W
Mr. Rooker

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is his best estimate for each health authority of the percentage of eligible women who have been screened for cervical cancer at the latest convenient date.

Mrs. Currie

This information is not currently available as statistics to date have concentrated on the number of smear tests performed rather than on the number of women screened. It will however become available during 1989 when we receive health authorities' returns from Körner form KC 53 ("Adult screening programmes—cervical cytology").