Question follow-through · 94956
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will introduce a national screening programme for prostate cancer.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 26 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
26 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will introduce a national screening programme for prostate cancer.
1 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2025
Answer published
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), that advises ministers in all four nations of the United Kingdom, has carried out an evidence review to look at screening for prostate cancer. It is only where the UK NSC is confident that screening provides m...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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