Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2021 to Question 185893 on Pregnancy: Screening, on what date the evaluative rollout of non-invasive prenatal testing is expected to be completed.

A non-invasive pre-natal test (NIPT) was introduced as an evaluative rollout in England on 1 July 2021, as part of the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme. The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) is being kept informed annually on the progress of this rollout.

NHS England has extended the evaluative rollout of the NIPT to March 2026, so that pregnancy outcomes can be included in the final report. The report is expected to go to the UK NSC at the end of 2026.