Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps she has taken to implement the recommendations of Sir Mike Richards' report entitled the Independent review of adult screening programmes in England, published in October 2019.

The Department, NHS England and formerly Public Health England, took forward a number of workstreams to address the recommendations made by Prof Sir Mike Richards as part of the review of adult screening programmes.

A number of these workstreams have already been completed, including since June 2022, the expanded remit of the UK National Screening Committee to review targeted and stratified screening alongside population screening programmes and guidance published in 2020 on tackling equalities.

We continue to work with NHS England to improve uptake of screening programmes, including through data sharing, research, and via the Digital Transformation of Screening programme. This programme is designing and implementing future-proof digital systems that will allow programmes to become more responsive for service users and providers.