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 a contraceptive intrauterine device to be fitted.

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.