Cervical Cancer: Screening

Mr. Baron
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to move to an activity-based system for funding cervical cancer screening services.

Ann Keen
The decision has been taken to explore having a tariff for cervical screening, along with breast and bowel screening, to incentivise services to encourage higher coverage. The Department is working closely with national health service cancer screening programmes on a scoping exercise to inform this work.