Question follow-through · 81332
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department is providing to support the development of reliable prostate cancer screening tests.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 13 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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- Respiratory Diseases: Salford · 15 Jun 2026
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- 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
13 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department is providing to support the development of reliable prostate cancer screening tests.
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2025
Answer published
The UK National Screening Committee reviewed the evidence for prostate cancer screening in 2020 and recommended against it due to the insufficient reliability of the best available test, the prostate specific antigen test (PSA test).The committee is curre...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Respiratory Diseases: Salford
15 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of (a) the prevalence of respiratory disease and (b) the number of emergency hospital admissions for respiratory conditions in Salford; and what steps he is