Lower the age for smear tests from 25 to 18 to prevent cervical cancer.

Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Health Inequalities - Tue 28 Jun 2022

Mentions:
1: Harper, Emma (SNP - South Scotland) for cervical cancer screening? - Speech Link
2: Todd, Maree (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) now have an opportunity to eradicate cervical cancer because of the advances in smear sampling and in - Speech Link
3: None the committee, have refused to go through the cervical smear process. - Speech Link
4: Todd, Maree (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) The screening programme for cervical cancer is unique in that it catches changes before they even become - Speech Link

Select Committee

Formal Minutes Nov. 18 2021

Committee: Petitions Committee

Found: age 25 - Help Prevent Triple Negative Breast Cancer https://petition .parliament.uk/petitions/265183

Scottish Government Publication (Consultation analysis)

Sep. 02 2021

Found: Organisation responses to gender recognition consultation: rest of UK

Westminster Hall
Cervical Screening - Mon 19 Jul 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (LAB - Gower) cervical cancer at the earliest stage.During covid, England had an attendance rate for smear tests of - Speech Link
2: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) Cervical screening starts at the age of 25, not 18, as HPV is very rare in younger women, with fewer - Speech Link
3: Taiwo Owatemi (LAB - Coventry North West) and May 2020, and figures show that cancer screening for women in the 25-to-64 age group—the most vulnerable - Speech Link
4: Philippa Whitford (SNP - Central Ayrshire) specifically calls for annual cervical smear tests, what we are all actually trying to achieve is the - Speech Link
5: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) The most effective way to prevent deaths from cervical cancer is for as many women as possible to attend - Speech Link

Lords Chamber
Women’s Health Outcomes - Thu 08 Jul 2021
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (CON - Life peer) Cancer Research’s most recent figures, from 2015 to 2017, report about 75,000 new cases of breast, cervical - Speech Link
2: Lord Boateng (LAB - Life peer) They have worse outcomes too for breast and cervical cancer. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) smear test last year because of the pandemic and now is facing terminal cancer. - Speech Link

Parliamentary Research
E-petition debate: Routine cervical screening - CDP-2021-0113
Jun. 30 2021

Found: E-petition debate: Routine cervical screening

Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Women’s Health - Tue 15 Jun 2021

Mentions:
1: Hamilton, Rachael (Con - Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire) and cancer diagnostic tests shelved. - Speech Link
2: Baillie, Jackie (Lab - Dumbarton) We need action on a catch-up plan for breast cancer and cervical cancer screening to clear the backlog - Speech Link
3: Todd, Maree (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) that the television ad campaign on going for smear tests has resumed. - Speech Link