Public Health Screening

Mr. Lansley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 27 June 2006, Official Report, column 333W, on public health screening programmes, which of the programmes listed are both fully operational and cover the whole of England.

Caroline Flint
Screening programmes for the following conditions are both fully operational and cover the whole of England: congenital hypothyroidism, cervical cancer, breast cancer and newborn hearing. The remaining programmes on the list are being developed to ensure a high quality screening service is available across England when fully implemented.