Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 62795

Cervical Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 25 June 2025
Answered: 10 July 2025

Question

Callum Anderson

Labour — Buckingham and Bletchley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of self-sampling on levels of uptake for cervical screening among (a) socioeconomic and (b) ethnic groups.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The Department undertook an Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) into the introduction of human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling in under-screened populations, which will be published shortly. The findings of this EQIA, which considered national and intern...
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