Question follow-through · 66777
Cervical Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the progress to meeting the World Health Organisation's 2030 strategy for (a) the elimination of cervical cancer, (b) 90 percent of girls vaccinated with
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 18 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the progress to meeting the World Health Organisation's 2030 strategy for (a) the elimination of cervical cancer, (b) 90 percent of girls vaccinated with
14 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jul 2025
Answer published
NHS England published the Cervical cancer elimination plan by 2040 – plan for England in March 2025, setting out how the National Health Service will improve equitable uptake and coverage across human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and cervical screenin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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