Heading: |
Prostate Cancer: Health Services |
Question ID: |
1818730 |
UIN: |
64497 |
House: |
Commons |
Date tabled: |
2025-07-02 |
Asking Member ID: |
5046 |
Asking Member display name: |
Andrew Ranger
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Asking Member handle: |
andrewrangermp
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Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@andrewrangermp
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Member interest: |
false |
Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to introduce a national screening programme for prostate cancer; and what steps his Department is taking to improve outcomes for people affected by the disease. |
Is named day: |
false |
Date of holding answer: |
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Date answered: |
2025-07-10 |
Date answer corrected: |
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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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Correcting Member ID: |
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Correcting Member display name: |
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Correcting Member handle: |
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Answer text: |
The Department is guided on screening policy by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC). The UK NSC does not currently recommend a national screening programme for prostate cancer, as the current best test, the Prostate Specific Antigen test, lacks t... |
Original answer text: |
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Comparable answer text: |
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Answering body ID: |
17 |
Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
Tweeted: |
true |