HC Deb 23 May 1991 vol 191 cc592-3W
Mr. Pawsey

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will fund the introduction of a national screening system for the early detection of intestinal cancer via occult foetal blood tests.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

It would be premature to consider this before we know the outcome of a study, which the Department and the Medical Research Council are currently funding, to evaluate screening for colorectal cancer.