(2) how many women from the top decile of deprived wards in (a) Hartlepool constituency and (b) the Tees Valley sub-region did not take up the offer of screening for (i) breast cancer and (ii) cervical cancer in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
The available information requested is in the table:
Hartlepool primary care trust County Durham and Tees Valley strategic health authority1 Breast screening coverage2 Cervical screening coverage3 Breast screening coverage Cervical screening coverage 1995-96 n/a n/a 69.1 89.5 1996-97 n/a n/a 67.2 88.9 1997-98 n/a n/a 66.2 88.9 1998-99 n/a n/a 68.7 85.9 1999-2000 n/a n/a 72.8 85.3 2000-01 n/a n/a 72.7 88.9 2001-02 77.2 81.3 78.4 82.8 2002-03 56.4 80.8 73.0 82.1 2003-04 76.1 80.2 69.4 81.5 2004-05 54.8 79.3 73.7 80.8 1 Tees Health Authority from 1995-96 to 2000-01. 2 Breast screening coverage is the proportion of women resident who have had a test result at least once in the previous three years. 3 Cervical screening coverage is the percentage of women in a population eligible for screening at a given point in time whose last test producing an adequate result was less than five years ago. Source: Statistical Bulletin: Cervical Screening Programme, England: 1995-96 to 2004-05 and Statistical Bulletin: Breast Screening Programme, England: 1995-96 to 2004-05
Statistics on how many women from the top decile of deprived wards in Hartlepool and the Tees Valley who undertook breast and cervical screening are not held centrally.