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Question follow-through · 5537

Bowel Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to offer bowel cancer screening to people aged 50.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
12 Sept 2024
Target answer date
8 Oct 2024
Answer
8 Oct 2024 · 26 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Sept 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to offer bowel cancer screening to people aged 50.

  2. 8 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    The National Health Service in England has been gradually reducing the age for bowel screening from 60 years old down to 50 years old, since 2021/22. The extension to 50 years old is expected to be completed by 2025.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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