Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 76446

Hearing: Testing

Tabled: 10 September 2025
Answered: 16 September 2025

Question

Adam Dance

Liberal DemocratYeovil

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of providing NHS standard hearing tests to children in primary schools in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) Eng

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) is an independent scientific advisory committee advising Ministers and the National Health Service about all aspects of population and targeted screening. It reviewed screening children for hearing problems in ...

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