United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 81332
Prostate Cancer: Screening
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13 October 2025
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24 October 2025 · Answer
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24 October 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department is providing to support the development of reliable prostate cancer screening tests.
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13 October 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department is providing to support the development of reliable prostate cancer screening tests.
Source: Commons
24 October 2025
Answer
The UK National Screening Committee reviewed the evidence for prostate cancer screening in 2020 and recommended against it due to the insufficient reliability of the best available test, the prostate specific antigen test (PSA test).The committee is curre...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-10-13/81332
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1840366
- uk · wq-1840366 · source updated 24 October 2025