PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Cervical Cancer: Screening (11 February 2021)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research his Department has (a) completed and (b) planned on the use of new technologies as part of the cervical cancer screening programme.

Asked by:
Mike Kane (Labour)

Answer

Since 2015/16, the Department, through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has completed three research projects on the use of new technologies as part of the cervical cancer screening programme; two NIHR research projects are still active; and one project is planned.

In the same period, there are 19 completed NIHR studies on the use of new technologies as part of the cervical cancer screening programme; three active NIHR studies and one planned NIHR study.


Answered by:
Edward Argar (Conservative)
26 February 2021

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