Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 81332
Prostate Cancer: Screening
Tabled: 13 October 2025
Answered: 24 October 2025
Question
Rebecca Long Bailey
Labour — Salford
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department is providing to support the development of reliable prostate cancer screening tests.
Answer
Ashley DaltonThe UK National Screening Committee reviewed the evidence for prostate cancer screening in 2020 and recommended against it due to the insufficient reliability of the best available test, the prostate specific antigen test (PSA test).The committee is curre...
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