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Eyesight: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his department has issued guidance on steps to help increase Child Vision Screening Programmes.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
10 Dec 2025
Answer
5 Jan 2026 · 28 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his department has issued guidance on steps to help increase Child Vision Screening Programmes.

  2. 10 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    The UK National Screening Committee recommends vision screening for children aged four to five years old. Information on the UK National Screening Committee is available at the following linkhttps://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-national-screenin...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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