Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set out the timetable for the UK National Screening Committee’s review of screening for sudden cardiac death in young people; and whether the large-scale screening audit data due for publication in February 2026 will be considered as part of that review.

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) is currently re-examining the evidence for sudden cardiac death screening in young people and will open a public consultation on this in the spring.

The UK NSC secretariat is not aware of the audit referred to in this question. However, as the literature review needs to be completed and analysed before a consultation is published, any evidence published in February of this year will not be part of the UK NSC consultation.