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.
About this written question
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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
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.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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