Breast Cancer Screening

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his constructive tone, and I want to reassure him that each and ev...

I thank the Secretary of State for the commitments and actions he has set out. Colleagues across ...

Yes, and I can reassure my hon. Friend that GPs will be briefed and that people will be referred ...

I thank the Secretary of State for my advance briefing, but, as a breast surgeon and co-chair of ...

The hon. Lady has asked some important questions. I am sorry if what I said was not clear, but I ...

I think that Members on both sides of the House have appreciated the measured way in which my rig...

I thank my hon. Friend for the work that he did on cancer when he was working at the Department o...

We have an ethical duty to get screening right, because we are inviting well people into our heal...

I do not know the answer to that question, but I will look into it. If we find that the uptake wa...

I thank the Secretary of State for his measured statement, and for all he is doing to ensure that...

I am afraid that my right hon. Friend is absolutely right. The truth is that we do have a quality...

I think that anyone who listened to the statement will be devastated and appalled to learn about ...

We are indeed talking to the charities operating in this sector about how we can best provide all...

I commend my right hon. Friend for the way in which he brought this very bad news to the House, a...

Absolutely. As my hon. Friend will know from his own medical background, it is impossible to know...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement and for the work he is doing to ensure that women ...

According to the advice that I have received so far, there is no read-across to other screening p...

What conversations has the Secretary of State had with the Welsh Secretary? Having long since pas...

We have not had conversations at ministerial level, but we have had conversations at official lev...

I welcome the Secretary of State’s announcement today that there will be an independent review; i...

I thank my hon. Friend for her excellent advice, which gives me the opportunity to repeat that th...

I thank the Secretary of State for his statement. There is no other way to describe what has happ...

I thank the hon. Lady for her comments. We have many other occasions to have a broader discussion...

May I add my words of support to the Secretary of State for the way he has approached this issue,...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I assure him that the review being done by Lynda Th...

The statement the Secretary of State has made today is truly shocking, and many women and their f...

That is a reasonable question, and I assure the hon. Lady that we are sending these letters out a...

This is a good time to pay tribute to all the excellent cancer support charities, counselling ser...

That is a good point, and we will get in touch with all the cancer charities that we think are go...

When did the Secretary of State or the Minister with direct responsibility for screening last ask...

I will have to get back to the hon. Gentleman with a detailed answer to that question. Ministers ...

My constituency has many breast cancer sufferers who were victims of the rogue surgeon Mr Paterso...

I thank my right hon. Friend for suggesting the Bishop of Norwich as a good person to help in the...

Breast cancer screening makes a real difference to the outcomes for breast cancer patients by dia...

We will look at whether we are able to get in contact with people and will get in contact wheneve...

While it will be for the review to investigate and report on why the fault with the algorithm was...

That is a very good point. The original issue—or the original potential issue—was identified by p...

This is a hugely upsetting and serious issue, and I commend the Secretary of State for the great ...

I thank the hon. Lady for making that fair and important point. I will make a special effort in t...

I also thank the Secretary of State for his measured and sensitive tone in delivering this aftern...

I am very happy to make that commitment.

I hope that the independent review will investigate this, but is the Secretary of State aware of ...

That is a very good question. I am not aware of any such instances, but that is exactly what we w...

How many cancers are detected for every 10,000 screenings, and what is the clinical consensus on ...

My right hon. Friend is testing my clinical knowledge here; there will be other people in the Cha...

Let us be clear that this is an utterly desperate situation. We know that some women may well hav...

That is an important question. We have the Be Clear on Cancer campaign, which is a national adver...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement, and for the urgency and sensitivity with which he...

We are absolutely guaranteeing that all women affected who are still alive will be invited to hav...

I should like to thank the Secretary of State for his comprehensive response. Can he advise me ho...

I believe that the IT work, which is a collaboration between the Scottish NHS and the English NHS...

My grandmother died of breast cancer a few years ago, and my heart goes out to all the women affe...

Yes, we are briefing all GP surgeries and all GPs about what the appropriate response is, because...

Order. As colleagues know, I like to call everyone on statements, and I do not wish to make an ex...

I thank the Secretary of State for his statement and for his compassion and care. Is he aware of ...

That is a slightly different topic, but we have no greater priority than to ensure that Brexit do...

The hon. Member for Bexhill and Battle (Huw Merriman) will be a master of the pithy question beca...

And I am very proud to have been.

The Secretary of State knows well and cares deeply about ...

The whole House is thinking of my hon. Friend who, like many people in this country, is going thr...

I wish the hon. Gentleman well in the period ahead. I was not aware of those personal circumstanc...

Hear, hear.

As I understand it, Public Health England, which is of course operationally independent of Minist...

PHE has given clear assurances that the problem has been fixed, but it is open to any suggestions...

I thank the Secretary of State for his statement. As co-chair of the all-party parliamentary grou...

Anyone who has concerns as of today is welcome to call the helpline, but the women whom we know h...

I welcome the tone of the Secretary of State’s statement today, even though its contents will be ...

That is a good point. I can assure my hon. Friend that the Department will be leading a big consu...

As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on blood cancer, I am pleased that the Secretary of...

Absolutely. That will be one of the most important things that the review does.

Tragically, it seems that the flaws were of long standing—I think the Secretary of State referred...

Absolutely. There are basically two parts to this process. One is what the problem was with the o...

I welcome the compassionate tone of the Opposition spokesman and the Secretary of State, and I pa...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. One of the most important ways of getting that change in mind...

While Stockport is one of the best areas for cancer identification, there will be concern that so...

We need to ensure that screening is accessible. I fully understand the concerns of my hon. Friend...

My friend Emma Agnew, a woman in her own right but also known as “Mrs Aggers” because she is marr...

My right hon. Friend speaks extremely wisely. We have the Touch, Look, Check campaign, and it is ...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement and for his tone. This was clearly a failure not o...

My hon. Friend may well be right that we need to do that, but what I would like to do first is to...

I thank the Secretary of State for the genuine personal concern that he has shown today and for h...

Yes, I am happy to give that assurance. The number of people affected is only an estimate at the ...

An additional 200,000 to 300,000 women could be seeking breast cancer screening within the next s...

That is an important question. One of our top priorities has been to construct a resolution to th...

I also welcome the compassionate tone used by hon. Members on both sides of the House today, and ...

Yes, absolutely. We are doing this review because we want to understand precisely why this happen...