Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 77204

Screening: Innovation

Tabled: 15 September 2025

Answered: 15 October 2025

Named Day

Question

Tom Gordon

Liberal Democrat — Harrogate and Knaresborough

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what consideration he has given to supporting the National Screening Committee to (a) more swiftly implement innovation within screening programmes and (b) adopt innovative new programmes once prov

Answer

Ashley Dalton

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) and its secretariat have adopted several robust strategies that support responsiveness to innovation in screening.The committee uses the expertise of its research and methodology group to help researchers focus...

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