§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will state the total amount of expenditure on his Department's cervical screening programme for the most recent available year and outline the various elements, such as general practitioner remuneration, concerned.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyGeneral practitioners receive payments for achieving specific targets for cervical cancer screening; the total expenditure on these in 1990–91 was90W £40 million. No central estimate is made of the cost of the other main elements of the cervical screening programme: the laboratory examination of smears, or the administration of the arrangements for inviting women for screening.