Dr. Stephanie O'Keeffe:

My understanding at the time from the briefings I had received was that the CervicalCheck programme was seeking legal advice on whether there was any impediment to it being able to send the letters to the treating clinicians with a view to telling the women the information. It received legal advice that it could go ahead but that it had to be careful about the mode, method and content, that the individual details needed to be clear and so on. I recall one email had legal advice appended to it. There is possibly an awful lot more in the CervicalCheck programme and I will be happy to furnish whatever documentation the Deputy wishes to see.