Bowel Cancer: Screening
Commons · Question 3364 · 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, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of lowering the bowel screening age to 25.
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...