Question follow-through · 70234

Cervical Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish (a) the full impact assessment and (b) equality impact assessment of the changes to the length of time between cervical cancer screenings.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
22 Jul 2025
Target answer date
1 Sept 2025
Answer
5 Sept 2025 · 45 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 22 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish (a) the full impact assessment and (b) equality impact assessment of the changes to the length of time between cervical cancer screenings.

  2. 1 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    Both the impact assessment and the equality impact assessment on the changes to the frequency of cervical screening have been published and are available at the following link:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cervical-screening-risk-stratificati...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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