Question follow-through · 90917
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the feasibility of introducing a national risk-stratified screening programme for prostate cancer.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 13 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 20 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the feasibility of introducing a national risk-stratified screening programme for prostate cancer.
20 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Nov 2025
Answer published
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), which advises ministers on all screening matters, commissioned an evidence review modelling the clinical effectiveness and cost of several approaches to prostate cancer screening. This included different poten...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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