Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the uptake of cervical cancer screenings in (a) Stoke-on-Trent and (b) Kidsgrove.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have advised that national funding has been secured for the Health Community Champions programme in Stoke-on-Trent to promote cervical screening. University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust and the local authority are planning a community event with the local Muslim population to increase uptake and the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent region is working with the learning disability regional team to source and distribute easy read resources to all general practitioner practices. In addition, the regional communications teams have supported the national ‘Help us help you’ cervical screening campaign to encourage uptake across the West Midlands region.