Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many screenings for cervical cancer have taken place in the NHS, as part of the NHS Cervical Screening Programme, in each month since April 2019.

We do not hold monthly data on the number of people being screened for cervical cancer. Data for the cervical screening programme is collected on an annual basis; the data for 2019-20 (up to 31 March 2020) is not yet available. The annual series is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/cervical-screening-annual

Management information is published for the cervical screening programme on a quarterly basis. This provides a count of how many women have been screened in the last 3.5/5.5 years at the end of that quarter, rather than for that quarter alone. The latest period covers data to Quarter 4 2019-20 and is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/cervical-screening-programme/cervical-screening-programme-coverage-statistics-management-information