PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Breast Cancer: Screening (21 October 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the uptake of breast cancer screening in (a) London and (b) the North East London Health and Care Partnership.

Asked by:
Nesil Caliskan (Labour)

Uptake of breast screening declined during the pandemic but is now increasing although London uptake levels remains below England levels. The national acceptable level for coverage in the NHS Breast Screening Programme is 70%.

The following table shows the 2022/23 coverage by local authority in the North East London Health and Care Partnership, with an average coverage of 50.8%:

Local authority	2021/22	2022/23
Barking and Dagenham	59.9	61.0
Hackney and City of London	54.9	47.5
Havering	73.4	73.7
Newham	53.0	47.9
Redbridge	58.8	58.9
Tower Hamlets	52.2	46.1
Waltham Forest	60.3	58.2
London	55.5	55.9
England	65.3	66.4

Source: Breast screening annual statistics, NHS England

Answered by:
Andrew Gwynne (Labour)
30 October 2024