Question follow-through · 109279
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the UK National Screening Committee’s modelling assumes that the introduction of a prostate cancer screening programme would be additional to, or would partially replace, existing opportuni
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 28 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 2 Feb 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- 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
28 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the UK National Screening Committee’s modelling assumes that the introduction of a prostate cancer screening programme would be additional to, or would partially replace, existing opportuni
2 Feb 2026
Target answer date
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2 Feb 2026
Answer published
Drawing on the available peer reviewed evidence, the Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research (SCHARR) has undertaken economic analysis on behalf of the UK National Screening Committee.In their modelling, in line with best practice and the standar...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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