| Heading: |
Prostate Cancer: Screening |
| Question ID: |
1807614 |
| UIN: |
56046 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5354 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Cameron Thomas
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Cameron Thomas
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of implementing a national screening programme for prostate cancer. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-05 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4981 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Ashley Dalton
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| Answering Member handle: |
AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answer text: |
The Department is guided on screening policy by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC). The committee has commissioned a university to carry out a high quality review and to create a cost effectiveness model of the evidence for a national prostate c... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |