Question follow-through · 49859
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of a national prostate cancer screening programme on (a) early diagnosis rates and (b) health inequalities.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 1 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 8 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
1 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of a national prostate cancer screening programme on (a) early diagnosis rates and (b) health inequalities.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 May 2025
Answer published
The Department is guided on screening policy by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC). The committee has commissioned a university to carry out a high quality review and cost effectiveness model of the evidence for a national prostate cancer screen...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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