Question follow-through · 8696
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of targeted prostate cancer screening on earlier diagnosis rates.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2026 · 6 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
10 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of targeted prostate cancer screening on earlier diagnosis rates.
15 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2026
Answer published
The targeted prostate cancer 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 Nati...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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