Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 65770

Cervical Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 8 July 2025
Answered: 11 July 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to encourage young girls to attend smear tests.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The NHS Cervical Screening Programme in England provides all women and people with a cervix between the ages of 25 and 64 years old with the opportunity to be screened routinely to detect human papillomavirus (HPV) infection or cervical abnormalities at a...
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