| Heading: |
Bowel Cancer: Screening |
| Question ID: |
1810792 |
| UIN: |
58485 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-09 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5317 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Paul Davies
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Paul Davies
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to support colonoscopy services following the extension of the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme to include people aged 50-74. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-17 |
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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 age extension for bowel screening started in April 2021 with the 56 year old cohort and, based on modelling and clinical advice, has followed the planned gradual reduction to age 50 by 2025. This has been done to ensure that screening centres could ma... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |