Question follow-through · 8071
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in regard to prostate screening, for what reason there is a difference between black and white men between the ages of 45 and 74.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in regard to prostate screening, for what reason there is a difference between black and white men between the ages of 45 and 74.
11 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2026
Answer published
The targeted screening programme, announced on 2 June 2026 and rolling out in 2027, will screen men between 45 and 61 years old who have a BRCA2 gene variant and a family history of prostate, breast, pancreatic or ovarian cancer. The UK National Screening...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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