Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 196347
Cervical Cancer: Screening
Tabled: 1 September 2023
Answered: 7 September 2023
Question
Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
Labour — Slough
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to make cervical smear tests more accessible for women with (a) newborn babies and (b) young children.
Answer
The cervical screening programme uses the HPV test not the cervical smear test. This has been in place since late 2019 and detects the HPV virus which causes 99.7% of cervical cancers.We are committed to improving the uptake of the cervical screening prog...
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