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Written Question
Cervical Cancer
Tuesday 15th May 2018

Asked by: Countess of Mar (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what were the incidence rates of cervical cancer among (1) 18–49 year old women, and (2) women over the age of 50, in England for each year since 2011.

Answered by Lord Young of Cookham

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to The Countess of Mar, dated 3 May 2018.

Dear Lady Mar,

As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am replying to your Parliamentary Question asking what were the incidence rates of cervical cancer among (1) 18-49 year old women, and (2) women over the age of 50, in England for each year since 2011 (HL7466).

The Office for National Statistics (ONS), in collaboration with Public Health England, publishes the number of cancer cases registered (incidence) in England in each calendar year, as part of its Cancer Statistics Registrations, England (Series MB1) release. The latest available cancer incidence data published by ONS are provisional figures for 2016[1]. The provisional 2016 release does not contain a refreshed back series of cancer incidence, which would consider the continual accrual of late registrations. Therefore, the historic figures (from 2011 to 2015) below are based on the 2015 National Statistics release[2].

Cervical cancer is defined using International Classification of Diseases, 10th edition (ICD-10) code C53 (malignant neoplasm of cervix uteri). Table 1 overleaf provides the number and rate of women diagnosed cases of cervical cancer, (ICD-10: C53) by age group, in England from 2011 to 2016.

While ONS does not hold cancer incidence data for Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales, similar figures are published by the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry[3], the Scottish Cancer Registry[4] and the Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit[5], respectively.

Yours sincerely,

John Pullinger

Age group

Year of Registration

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016p

18-49

Count

1,576

1,555

1,642

1,655

1,609

1,590

50+

Count

979

989

1,037

950

906

1,003

18-49

Rate

13.4

13.3

14.0

14.2

13.8

13.6

50+

Rate

10.1

10.0

10.4

9.3

8.7

9.5

Notes:

1. Cervical cancer is defined according to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) as C53.

p Provisional figures.

Source: Office for National Statistics

Table 1: Incidence counts and rates per 100,000 women of cervical cancer by age group, England, 2011 to 20161

[1]https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/cancerregistrationstatisticsengland/2016

[2]https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/cancerregistrationstatisticsengland/2015

[3] http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/nicr/

[4] http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/

[5] http://www.wcisu.wales.nhs.uk/home

Written Question
Alzheimer's Disease
Monday 21st July 2014

Asked by: Countess of Mar (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many deaths in the United Kingdom were attributed to Alzheimer’s disease in 1970, 1982 and 2013.

Answered by Lord Wallace of Saltaire - Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson (Cabinet Office)

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.