Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the use of self collected vaginal swabs in NHS cervical screening, and what steps he is taking to ensure that patients who are not able to undertake self sampling continue to have access to clinician led screening.

I refer the Hon. Member to the Written Statement HCWS732 made on 24 June 2025, which is available at the following link, and makes clear that the provision of this additional service does not affect the right to continue accessing clinician led screening:

https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2025-06-24/hcws732