Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data he holds on the number of people with late stage cancer diagnoses broken down by religious group.

Answered by Ashley Dalton - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The National Disease Registration Service (NDRS) in NHS England, as the national cancer registry, collects and analyses diagnosis and treatment data on cancer patients in England. The religion of patients is not collected or stored by the NDRS. Further information on the NDRS is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/ndrs

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on late stage cancer diagnoses, by ethnic group.

Answered by Ashley Dalton - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The National Disease Registration Service in NHS England, as the national cancer registry, collects and analyses diagnosis and treatment data on cancer patients in England. Further information on the National Disease Registration Service is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/ndrs

The following estimates are taken from the data used in Accredited Official Statistics on Cancer Registration for 2022, the most recent diagnosis year available, with further information available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/cancer-registration-statistics/england-2022

The estimates apply the 2021 census ethnic groups for England and Wales, namely:

• Asian or Asian British;
• black, black British, Caribbean, or African;
• mixed or multiple ethnic groups;
• white; and
• other ethnic group

Further information on the ethnic groups used is available at the following link:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/ethnicity/bulletins/ethnicgroupenglandandwales/census2021

Where an ethnicity is not stated on the data sources that are used to compile the cancer registration statistics, these are given the label “Unknown (not stated)”.

The proportions given are on a complete case basis, which compares known stage at diagnosis, and stageable diagnoses for which insufficient data has been reported to the National Disease Registration Service are not included. The definition of early and late stage diagnoses are those used in the NHS Long Term Plan ambitions for cancer, specifically that diagnoses at stages 1 and 2 are considered to be early, and diagnoses at stages 3 and 4 are considered to be late. Further information on the NHS Long Term Plan ambitions for cancer is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/cancer/strategy/

The following table shows the number and proportion of cancers diagnosed early and late for all stageable diagnoses combined, by ethnic group, in 2022, in England:

Not every cancer is stageable, and some types of cancer do not have a staging system, so the tabulations above are for a subset of the reported total number of diagnoses of cancer.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on maternal mortality rates in Jewish women.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department does not hold data on maternal mortality rates in Jewish or Sikh women. Maternity data broken down by several factors including maternal age and ethnicity is published by NHS England.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on maternal mortality in Sikh women.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department does not hold data on maternal mortality rates in Jewish or Sikh women. Maternity data broken down by several factors including maternal age and ethnicity is published by NHS England.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of (a) trends in the number of and (b) outcomes from cardiovascular disease among Sikh people.

Answered by Ashley Dalton - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Government is committed to ensuring fewer lives are lost to the biggest killers, including cardiovascular disease. That is why our Health Mission sets an ambition to reduce premature death from heart disease and stroke by 25% within a decade.

Currently, no assessment has been made on the trends or outcomes of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease among Sikh people, as we do not collect information on religion.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of (a) trends in the number of and (b) outcomes from type 2 diabetes among Sikh people.

Answered by Ashley Dalton - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Government is committed to ensuring fewer lives are lost to the biggest killers, including cardiovascular disease. That is why our Health Mission sets an ambition to reduce premature death from heart disease and stroke by 25% within a decade.

Currently, no assessment has been made on the trends or outcomes of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease among Sikh people, as we do not collect information on religion.