§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library copies of the data available to him of rates for child immunisation and cervical screening by district health authority.
§ Mr. Mellor[holding answer 26 July 1989]: Copies of the Department's "Summary of Vaccination and Immunisation 1977 to 1987–88" (which gives district health authority uptake rates for diphtheria, tetanus, polio, whooping cough and measles) were placed in the Library when it was published. I have sent the hon. Member a copy. Immunisation uptake rates for 1988–89 are not yet available. Information on cervical screening is not yet available because statistics to date have concentrated on numbers of smear tests performed rather than the number of women screened. We expect information for 1988–89 to become available later this year when health authority returns on Körner form KC53 ("Adult Screening Programme—Cervical Cytology") are received and analysed by the Department.