United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 97003
Prostate Cancer: Screening
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3 December 2025
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5 January 2026 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of improving systems to identify men with (a) BRCA1 and (b) BRCA2 gene variations who may be eligible for prostate cancer screening.
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3 December 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of improving systems to identify men with (a) BRCA1 and (b) BRCA2 gene variations who may be eligible for prostate cancer screening.
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5 January 2026
Answer
The National Inherited Cancer Predisposition Register (NICPR), launched 1 July 2025, captures data on all individuals with a likely pathogenic/pathogenic variant in a cancer susceptibility gene in England. This world-first national dataset of individuals ...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-12-03/97003
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1859976
- uk · wq-1859976 · source updated 5 January 2026