Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department took to support Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.

Ministers welcome Cervical Cancer Prevention Week. We are fully supportive of the work Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust does to raise awareness of cervical cancer and the importance of cervical screening for eligible women. We have provided a supportive quote to Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust and will be active on social media throughout this week.

Human papillomavirus vaccine has been given to more than three million teenage girls across the United Kingdom since our vaccination programme started in 2008 and coverage is amongst the highest in the world. The number of young women with pre-cancerous lesions is falling and protection is expected to be long term helping to protect women against cervical cancer, eventually saving hundreds of lives each year.