Written questions

Cervical Cancer: Screening

Commons · Question 86736 · Tabled 30 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 5 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Charlotte Nichols

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of cervical cancer self-sampling on reaching under-screened populations; and what targets he has for the uptake of (a) in-clinic and

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 5 Nov 2025

Both the impact assessment and the equality impact assessment on the introduction of human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling for the under-screened population in the National Health Service Cervical Screening Programme have been published and is availabl...