Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have been raising awareness of cervical cancer in England during Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, and if so, how; and whether they have been collaborating with Unitaid on this and on wider programmes to improve women’s health.

NHS England runs Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms and address barriers to acting on them, to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. The campaigns focus on a range of symptoms, encouraging body awareness to help people spot symptoms across a wide range of cancers at an early point.

Unitaid are a leading funder of innovative tools to find and treat cervical cancer in low and middle income countries, laying the groundwork for national cervical cancer elimination programmes worldwide. The Department highly values its partnership with Unitaid, and has contributed more than half a billion pounds in funding.