The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 14 March 2008:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what the survival rates for each of the main categories of cancer are in each primary care trust in England in the last three years for which figures are available. (194179)
The Office for National Statistics does not produce survival rates by primary care trust area. The lowest geographical area for which rates are available are strategic health authority areas. The latest one- and five-year survival for eight common cancers by government office region, and strategic health authority, for patients diagnosed in 1997-99 and followed up to 31 December 2004, are available on the National Statistics website at:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=11991 &Pos=9&ColRank=1&Rank=272