Question follow-through · 63475
Prostate Cancer: Health Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of launching a prostate cancer awareness campaign for people at high risk of prostate cancer through his forthcoming National Cancer Plan.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 27 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jul 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Jun 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 launching a prostate cancer awareness campaign for people at high risk of prostate cancer through his forthcoming National Cancer Plan.
1 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Government understands that more needs to be done to improve outcomes for people at high risk of prostate cancer.NHS England runs Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms and to address the barriers to acting on them, to enc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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