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Prostate Cancer: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle disparities in prostate cancer outcomes for Black men.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 25 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 27 Mar 2025
Answer: 2 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle disparities in prostate cancer outcomes for Black men.
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government understands that more needs to be done to improve outcomes for all people with prostate cancer, including for black men.To address disparities and find ways to better detect prostate cancer earlier, we have invested £16 million in the Unite...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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