Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information the NHS holds on the number of Jewish people with breast cancer.

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. Further information is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/ndrs

The NDRS does not record patients’ religion as part of cancer registration data. Additionally, in line with guidance from the Office for National Statistics and the National Health Service, ethnicity data is collected using standardised categories that do not separately identify Jewish ethnicity. Further information on the classification of ethnic groups can be found at the following link:

https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/style-guide/ethnic-groups