§ Mr. ShersbyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what information he has concerning the extent to which children at school are currently having a regular dental check through the school dental service; and if he will publish in tabular form the percentage of children who had a check-up in the most recent 12-month period for which figures are available in respect of each local authority in England and Wales.
§ Mr. DorrellDistrict health authorities have responsibility for the screening of the teeth of children in state 513W funded schools at least three times in each child's school life. The percentage of school children inspected in each district health authority in England and Wales during the year ended 31 March 1990 is shown in the table.
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District health authority Percentage of school children inspected1 Northern RHA 62.8 Hartlepool2 71.3 North Tees 85.8 South Tees 50.1 East Cumbria 72.0 South Cumbria 66.2 West Cumbria 88.7 Darlington 58.5 Durham 21.8 North West Durham 49.8 South West Durham 73.8 Northumberland 77.5 Gateshead 66.9 Newcastle 61.7 North Tyneside 78.1 South Tyneside 58.3 Sunderland 48.7 Yorkshire RHA 60.9 Hull 39.1 East Yorkshire 60.3 Grimsby 64.1 Scunthorpe 61.9 Northallerton 64.9 York 46.4 Scarborough 55.9 Harrogate 57.1 Bradford 70.8 Airedale2 92.6 Calderdale 49.6 Huddersfield 65.6 Dewsbury 70.2 Leeds Western 57.2 Leeds Eastern 57.4 Wakefield 69.7 Pontefract 72.2 Trent RHA 60.7 North Derbyshire 63.3 South Derbyshire 73.7 Leicestershire 59.3 North Lincolnshire 70.0 South Lincolnshire 74.1 Bassetlaw 25.8 Central Nottinghamshire 44.4 Nottingham 41.2 Barnsley 53.5 Doncaster 62.8 Rotherham 50.8 Sheffield 83.7 East Anglia RHA 54.7 Cambridge 26.8 Peterborough 63.5 West Suffolk 69.0 East Suffolk 67.5 Norwich 60.2 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 35.9 West Norfolk and Wisbech _. 47.6 Huntingdon 56.9 North West Thames RHA 55.8 North Bedfordshire 48.6 South Bedfordshire 51.0 North Hertfordshire 50.0 East Hertfordshire 49.3 North West Hertfordshire 45.3 South West Hertfordshire 40.2 Barnet 78.5 Harrow 55.5 Hillingdon 58.3
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District health authority Percentage of school children inspected1 Hounslow and Spelthorne 82.3 Ealing 60.0 Parkside 53.2 Riverside 46.3 North East Thames RHA 52.3 Basildon and Thurrock 76.8 Mid Essex 36.0 North East Essex 49.0 West Essex 47.1 Southend 33.4 Barking/Havering/Brentwood 60.9 Hampstead 40.7 Bloomsbury 46.8 Islington 35.1 City and Hackney 53.2 Newham 89.3 Tower Hamlets 50.1 Enfield 52.9 Haringey 82.1 Redbridge 38.0 Waltham Forest 32.2 South East Thames RHA 61.8 Brighton 76.2 Eastbourne 68.2 Hastings 59.6 South East Kent 50.4 Canterbury and Thanet 51.2 Dartford and Gravesham 72.7 Maidstone 70.8 Medway 62.4 Tunbridge Wells 60.3 Bexley 43.6 Greenwich 19.0 Bromley 56.2 West Lambeth (2) 76.2 Camberwell 62.0 Lewisham and North Southwark 95.4 South West Thames RHA 48.7 North West Surrey 29.7 West Surrey and NE Hants 40.8 South West Surrey 47.7 Mid-Surrey 58.3 East Surrey 91.7 Chichester 47.5 Mid Downs 46.1 Worthing 50.7 Croydon 63.3 Kingston and Esher 11.4 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 18.9 Wandsworth 73.3 Merton and Sutton 51.3 Wessex RHA 58.1 East Dorset (2) 61.1 West Dorset 67.1 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 79.1 Southampton and South West Hampshire 50.5 Winchester 53.5 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 39.6 Salisbury 84.7 Swindon 22.2 Bath 60.9 Isle of Wight 51.7 Oxford RHA 49.6 East Berkshire 66.9 West Berkshire 66.9 Aylesbury Vale 47.5 Wycombe 56.0 Milton Keynes 16.4 Kettering 25.1 Northampton 44.9 Oxfordshire 48.4
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District health authority Percentage of school children inspected1 South Western RHA 60.0 Bristol and Weston 55.6 Frenchay 61.3 Southmead 35.5 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 63.1 Exeter 51.2 North Devon 75.2 Plymouth 91.0 Torbay 55.7 Cheltenham 41.5 Gloucester 66.7 Somerset 55.6 West Midlands RHA 64.0 Bromsgrove and Redditch 43.1 Herefordshire 70.4 Kidderminster and District 67.8 Worcester and District 36.6 Shropshire (Salop) 50.2 Mid-Staffordshire 62.7 North Staffordshire 66.9 South East Staffordshire 57.5 Rugby 66.8 North Warwickshire 87.5 South Warwickshire 88.0 Central Birmingham 58.0 East Birmingham 42.8 North Birmingham 36.6 South Birmingham 74.1 West Birmingham 53.0 Coventry 90.9 Dudley 53.1 Sandwell 86.5 Solihull 72.6 Walsall 77.1 Wolverhampton 61.0 Mersey RHA 64.0 Chester 77.4 Crewe 54.0 Halton 75.2 Macclesfield 54.1 Warrington 58.5 Liverpool 57.1 St. Helens and Knowsley 72.5 Southport and Formby 36.3 South Sefton 81.2 Wirral 67.8 North Western RHA 61.3 Lancaster 25.0 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 33.8 Preston 34.0 Blackburn, Hynburn and Ribble Valley 58.6 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 49.4 West Lancashire 27.4 Chorley and South Ribble 26.1 Bolton 75.7 Bury 84.4 North Manchester 83.0 Central Manchester (2) 99.7 South Manchester 54.9 Oldham 84.5 Rochdale 73.3 Salford 35.8 Stockport 73.4 Tameside and Glossop 72.9 Trafford 69.0 Wigan 79.5 Total England 58.7 Wales 57.3 Clwyd 43.2 East Dyfed 40.4 Gwent 44.6
District health authority Percentage of school children inspected1 Gwynedd 45.1 Mid Glamorgan 59.8 Powys 67.8 South Glamorgan 63.4 West Glamorgan 84.8 Pembrokeshire 87.9 Total England and Wales 58.6 (l) The 1989–90 data on inspections are available for all school children only. The percentage of children who had a dental check up have been calculated using the June 1989 population estimates for children aged 5 to 16. (2) 1988–89 data.