Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 45135

Prostate Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 8 April 2025
Answered: 22 April 2025

Question

Ian Byrne

LabourLiverpool West Derby

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve access to early prostate cancer (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment in deprived communities.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The Government understands that more needs to be done to improve outcomes for all people with prostate cancer. To achieve this, we have delivered an extra 40,000 operations, scans, and appointments each week during our first year in Government, as the fir...

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