Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include outpatient hysteroscopy on the agenda of a future meeting of the Women's Health Taskforce for England.

Since February 2019, the Taskforce has met on two further occasions on the following subjects:

25 April 2019 on the menopause.

4 July 2019 on menstrual health.

The draft Terms of Reference were revised after the Taskforce met on 31 January 2019, focusing on unplanned pregnancy. All of these meetings were held, and the draft Terms of Reference revised, when the Taskforce was co-chaired by the then Parliamentary Under Secretary for Mental Health, Inequalities and Suicide Prevention (Jackie Doyle-Price MP).

The Taskforce has not worked directly with the campaign against painful hysteroscopies or other campaign groups. The Taskforce is co-chaired by the President the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

There are currently no plans to include outpatient hysteroscopy as an agenda item for a future meeting of the Women’s Health Taskforce; it is, of course, possible that the issue will be discussed under a different agenda item in the future.