Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 94956

Prostate Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 26 November 2025
Answered: 11 December 2025

Question

Nick Timothy

ConservativeWest Suffolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will introduce a national screening programme for prostate cancer.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), that advises ministers in all four nations of the United Kingdom, has carried out an evidence review to look at screening for prostate cancer. It is only where the UK NSC is confident that screening provides m...

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