§ Mr. FallonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many asylum claimants refused the offer of basic health screening in the last 12 months for which figures are available. [171856]
§ Dr. LadymanThe information requested is not available on a national basis. Data collected locally shows that health screening was refused by around one per cent. (28 of 2,406) of asylum claimants who were received at the East Kent induction centre during the last six months. A new system of collating data was introduced in autumn 2003, and local information for a 12-month period could only be provided at disproportionate cost.