| Heading: |
Bowel Cancer: Screening |
| Question ID: |
1787954 |
| UIN: |
40823 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5032 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Tom Gordon
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| Asking Member handle: |
tomgordonLD
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@tomgordonLD
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase bowel cancer screening rates; and whether he plans to increase bowel cancer screening targets. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-27 |
| 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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| Answer text: |
The National Health Service is in the final stages of changing the screening age for the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, from those between 60 to 74 years old to those between 50 to 74 years old by 2025, which will increase the numbers being screened.NH... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |