Mr. Tony O'Brien:

To come to the wider question, on whether we know everything yet, the SIMT process has not reached its conclusion. This is a very important issue that the Chairman raises because there is concern or a feeling – I acknowledge where that feeling is coming from – about a drip-drip flow of information. Therefore, what we wanted to do as the SIMT progressed was bring as much information and clarity into the public domain as we could. That has had the effect that we had been sharing information before we had complete information.

We gave a media briefing and provided the written briefing the members have on Monday based on the best information the serious incident management team had at that point. It was only after that that what we have told the committee today about the National Cancer Registry information not being the same cohort of women became clear. We have shared all the information we have. However, the data matching exercise has not been completed, and we do not yet know the total number of women who participated in CervicalCheck. That work is currently under way.