Bowel Cancer: Older People
Commons · Question 85105 · Tabled 27 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Gregory Campbell
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people aged 75 years and over have requested a bowel screening kit by phoning the free bowel cancer screening helpline in the last two years.
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 13 Nov 2025
The National Health Service bowel cancer screening programme’s published data for 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2024 shows that 396,325 people self-referred or opted back into the programme within the year. This includes ‘over-age self-referrals’, those aged 7...