Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the waiting time is for an expired contraceptive intrauterine device to be removed.

Waiting times are not currently collected on a national level for the fitting and removal of contraceptive intrauterine devices, as individual local authorities manage their service waiting lists. The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities is undertaking a programme to improve reproductive health surveillance data, including the development of a new indicator that will aim to capture information on Long-acting Reversible Contraception method waiting lists at a national level.