United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 76445
Eyesight: Testing
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10 September 2025
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16 September 2025 · Answer
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16 September 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of providing NHS standard eye tests to children in primary school in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) England.
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10 September 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of providing NHS standard eye tests to children in primary school in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) England.
Source: Commons
16 September 2025
Answer
The UK National Screening Committee recommends vision screening in school for children aged between four and five years old to look for reduced vision in one or both eyes.Free National Health Service sight tests are also widely available for children unde...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-09-10/76445
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1834043
- uk · wq-1834043 · source updated 16 September 2025