Bowel Cancer: Screening
Commons · Question 3362 · Tabled 20 May 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 30 Jun 2026
Question
Asked by Lee Anderson
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase bowel cancer screening for young adults.
Answer
Answered by Sharon Hodgson, 30 Jun 2026
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 considers all of the late...