Screening and Vaccination: Age
Commons · Question 114496 · Tabled 20 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 3 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Oliver Ryan
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the age-related eligibility criteria for NHS screening and vaccination programmes, if he will make an assessment of (a) the evidential basis and decision-making process by which t
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 3 Mar 2026
For screening programmes, the Government is guided by the independent scientific advice of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC). It is only where the offer to screen provides more good than harm that a screening programme is recommended.The UK NSC...