Question follow-through · 60264
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review (a) guidelines and (b) referral criteria for the direct rectal examination for prostate cancer.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jun 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review (a) guidelines and (b) referral criteria for the direct rectal examination for prostate cancer.
18 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to ensuring that all patients with cancer, including prostate cancer, are diagnosed faster and more accurately, with the most appropriate diagnostic methods available. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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