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...