PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Cervical Cancer: Screening (17 March 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to review the Public Health England cervical screening programme guidance, particularly in reference to HIV testing for women presenting with cervical dysplasia.

Asked by:
Alex Davies-Jones (Labour)

There are no plans at present to review the cervical screening programme guidance to include human immunodeficiency virus testing in in colposcopy clinics, where further examination of the cervix is carried out.

Proposals to change an existing screening programme should be submitted to the United Kingdom National Screening Committee through its modification process, proposals are accepted throughout the year.

More information can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-evidence-review-process/uk-nsc-evidence-review-process

Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
22 March 2021