Cervical screening, as Dr Liz Craig has noted, is a key tool in maintaining the health of women across the country, and being able to get an immediate improvement to the way we access this information on the national cervical screening register is imperative to these improvements. The bill will enable also future upgrades to the IT that supports the register and how it's used, as well as future improvements to the screening programme, but it retains that strong control over the register. 