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 10 April 2019 to Question 243537, Urinary Tract Infections: Screening and with reference to the four items of correspondence cited in the Answer, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of NHS UTI screening tests in detecting bacteria in the bladder's lining.

In January 2019, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published a revised Clinical Knowledge Summary ‘Urinary tract infection (lower) – women’. The Clinical Knowledge Summaries provide an overview of the process and evidence considered in developing the documents.