Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to pilot the self-sampling of cervical screening for women who would prefer to access their screening in that way; and if he will make a statement.
The United Kingdom National Screening Committee is currently reviewing the evidence for human papillomavirus self-sampling as an additional test within the National Health Service cervical screening programme. A public consultation looking at self-screening is due to open in autumn 2018.