§ Mr. Brightasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will publish a table showing the number of cervical cancer smear tests conducted in each year from 1974 and the proportion of positive results;
(2) if he will publish a table showing the number of positive cervical cancer smear tests recorded in each year from 1974 and the proportion of those so detected who subsequently died.
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§ Mrs. Currie[pursuant to her reply, 17 December 1986]: I regret that my earlier reply contained an error. In the reply I said, 714W
some cancers or pre-cancers would never progress to more advanced stages of the disease".This should have read,some pre-cancers would never progress to more advanced stages of the disease".