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Bowel Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing bowel screening for people aged over 74.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
22 Jan 2025
Target answer date
27 Jan 2025
Answer
27 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 22 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing bowel screening for people aged over 74.

  2. 27 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 27 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    In the United Kingdom, national screening programmes are introduced based on the recommendations of the UK National Screening Committee, an independent scientific advisory committee which advises ministers and the National Health Service in all four count...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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