Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Ben Goldsborough and Wes Streeting

Tuesday 25th November 2025 Commons Chamber

[Wes Streeting]

We are expecting the draft recommendations, and then a three-month consultation period will follow, but I want to act quickly on the evidence and what the recommendations contain, not least because we know that as well as it being a prevalent form of cancer, some groups—particularly black men, men with a family history of prostate cancer and men with BRCA gene mutations—are at higher risk. Black men are twice as likely to die with prostate cancer than white men. There is therefore an imperative to act. Whatever the recommendation, we need to do much better on diagnosis and treatment of this terrible condition.

[Ben Goldsborough (South Norfolk) (Lab)]

9. What steps his Department is taking to improve access to NHS dental services in Norfolk.