Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 88120

Prostate Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 4 November 2025
Answered: 12 November 2025

Question

Mr Lee Dillon

Liberal DemocratNewbury

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of risk-stratified screening on improving early detection of prostate cancer.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), which advises ministers on all screening matters, commissioned an evidence review modelling the clinical effectiveness and cost of several approaches to prostate cancer screening. This included different poten...

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