Question follow-through · 113513
Breast Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, will he extend the upper age limit beyond 71 years for routine invitations under the NHS Breast Screening Programme.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 16 Mar 2026 · 24 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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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
20 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, will he extend the upper age limit beyond 71 years for routine invitations under the NHS Breast Screening Programme.
25 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Mar 2026
Answer published
For screening programmes, the Government is guided by the independent scientific advice of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC). It is only where the offer to screen provides more good than harm that a screening programme is recommended. The UK NS...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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