Question follow-through · 85836
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of Prostate Cancer Research's report entitled Prostate Cancer Screening: The Impact on the NHS, published in 14 October
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 28 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 5 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of Prostate Cancer Research's report entitled Prostate Cancer Screening: The Impact on the NHS, published in 14 October
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Government is guided by the independent, scientific advice of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC).The UK NSC Secretariat has corresponded with Prostate Cancer Research and described the committee’s formal published approach to identifying and...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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