Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of rates of breast screening participation in Yorkshire.

Data on screening participation in Yorkshire is collected and assessed yearly by NHS England. Data is collected on screening coverage, the percentage of women adequately screened in the last three and a half years, and uptake which shows the percentage of women invited who attended screening within six months of their invitation. The latest data, which is from 2020/21 for Yorkshire, shows that uptake was 61.4%, with coverage being 64.4%.

The national targets for uptake are as follows:

- Acceptable level: greater than or equal to 70.0%

- Achievable level: greater than or equal to 80.0%

The national targets for coverage are as follows:

- Acceptable level: greater than or equal to 70.0%

- Achievable level: greater than or equal to 80.0%

Data is published by NHS England and available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/breast-screening-programme/england---2020-21