| Heading: |
Prostate Cancer: Screening |
| Question ID: |
1788741 |
| UIN: |
41523 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-26 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4778 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Greg Smith
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| Asking Member handle: |
gregsmith_uk
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@gregsmith_uk
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Prostate Cancer Research report, Socio-economic Impact of Prostate Cancer Screening, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for his policies of the macroe |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-31 |
| 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 UK National Screening Committee currently does not recommend prostate cancer screening because the evidence suggests that it does more harm than good. The committee is currently reviewing the evidence for both population wide screening and targeted pr... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |