Question follow-through · 65770
Cervical Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to encourage young girls to attend smear tests.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jul 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
8 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to encourage young girls to attend smear tests.
10 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jul 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Opioids: Overdoses
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