Question follow-through · 26500
Bowel Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of people aged 75 and over who have phoned the free bowel cancer screening helpline in each of the last three years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 7 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 7 Sept 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of people aged 75 and over who have phoned the free bowel cancer screening helpline in each of the last three years.
7 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Sept 2026
Answer published
Further to the answer provided to the Hon Member on 22 January 2026 which covers years 2023 and 2024 in response to Question 106495, 123,479 people aged 75 years old and over requested a bowel cancer test kit in the calendar year 2025. Of these, 97% compl...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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Doctors: Training
9 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 24 April 2026 to Question 128045, when does she expect to receive the final outcome report from the Multi Speciality Recruitment Assessment process.