Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the take-up rate for cervical screening was in (a) the West Midlands (b) Coventry in 2017.

The National Health Service Cervical Screening Programme measures coverage rather than uptake rate. NHS England is responsible for monitoring the coverage rates for cervical screening in all age groups and is committed to improving coverage and reducing variation between all age groups.

The percentage of coverage for each area requested at the end of 2016-17 is: West Midlands, 71.4%; Coventry, 70.5%.

Cervical cancer screening data for the West Midlands are available here:

https://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30134

Data for Coventry are available through the Public Health England Fingertips tool:

http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/cancerservices