Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) number and (b) proportion of children in each region have received each of the health visitor checks in each of the last five years.

NHS England has published the percentages of children receiving health visitor checks for 2013/14 and 2014/15 data at:

www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/health-visitors/health-visitors-service-delivery-metrics/

No published data is held prior to April 2013.

Public Health England (PHE) now collects the data, which is submitted by local authorities on a voluntary basis. Data for 2015/16 can be found at:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20170302101209/http://www.chimat.org.uk/transfer#3

And data for 2016/17 at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-and-maternal-health-statistics#health-visitor-service-delivery-metrics.

A change in methodology means that the data from PHE and NHS England are not comparable.